Governmental departments The CGLPL took part in work conducted by committees or working groups coming under the Government. In this respect, it made particular contributions before the committee tasked with drafting a White Paper on the Prison Estate, and, in October, before the French High Council for Public Health, as part of its work on the evaluability of the national strategy for offenders. 1.1.3 Parliament The Chief Inspector of places of deprivation of liberty submitted the annual report for the previous year to the President of the National Assembly and President of the Senate on 14 and 16 March 2017. She was heard, in person or through one of her representatives, on a number of occasions: - on 1 February, by the evaluation mission of the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly on the rights and protection of psychiatric care patients and the provision methods; - on 2 March, by the information mission of the Laws Committee of the Senate on the reorganisation of the justice system; - on 28 September, by the rapporteurs of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, on the immigration, asylum and integration mission for the 2018 finance bill; - on 4 October, by the rapporteur for opinion of the Committee of Laws of the National Assembly on the draft prison administration budget for 2018; - on 20 October, by the rapporteur for opinion of the Laws Committee of the Senate on the draft budget of the "direction of governmental action" mission for 2018; - on 26 October, by the rapporteur for opinion of the Laws Committee of the Senate on the draft prison administration budget for 2018; - on 9 November, by the information mission of the Committee of Laws of the National Assembly, on the application of the 7 March 2016 Law on foreigners' rights in France; - on 14 November, by the Committee of Laws of the National Assembly on the CGLPL's findings and recommendations concerning penal institutions. Among these hearings, the last one is particularly worth highlighting because of its originality. Indeed, this one followed a series of penal institution inspections organised simultaneously by members of the Committee of Laws of the National Assembly. This hearing, which lasted an unusually long time, enabled the MPs to carry out a sweeping overview, with the Chief Inspector, of the conclusions they had drawn from their inspections and to compare them with the CGLPL's own observations - which often concurred. 1.2 Relations with non-public legal entities As in previous years, the Chief Inspector presented her annual report to the professional organisations representing staff employed in institutions under its oversight. She also presented her annual report during a meeting to which the main associations concerned by places of deprivation had been invited. She pressed on with the cycle of meetings initiated in 2016 on more specialised discussions depending on the type of place of deprivation of liberty. A meeting with the associations who work in 103