The service is designed to improve support for young adult and adult offenders in custody and on probation, but progress has been slow since its creation in 2004.
At a fringe event at last week's Labour Party conference run by think-tank the Social Market Foundation and youth charity Rainer, Gerry Sutcliffe, the junior minister for criminal justice at the Home Office, said: "There will be a NOMS bill in the Queen's Speech. We will look at what else we can put in that bill."
Other legislation being considered by the Home Office includes youth justice reforms, including plans to introduce a single community order for juvenile offenders (YPN, 17-23 May, p2).
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