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Grand Committee
Environment Agency: Waste Crime - Thu 12 Feb 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) These are not opportunistic fly-tippers, but organised criminal networks—people who engage in drug trafficking - Speech Link
2: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If this is a priority, this must be reflected in the legislative programme.Enforcement needs reform. - Speech Link
3: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) and disruption work are at least as important.We are building on these developments to make further policy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Better Prisons: Less Crime (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) adviser, Alex South, a former prison officer and author, and by our office team: clerk David Shiels, policy - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) It is important to include the voices of young people in policy-making. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wheatcroft (XB - Life peer) There were 136 drug-related deaths in the two years to December 2024 in our prisons. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neate (XB - Life peer) What I have learned is that policy silos do not help us find answers. - Speech Link
5: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) We need serious reform, and we are doing serious reform. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) The policy is designed to shove all funding to Labour councils. - Speech Link
2: Marie Rimmer (Lab - St Helens South and Whiston) Sadly, many are lured into county lines and drug taking. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Snowden (Con - Fylde) the reality of a Reform-led council? - Speech Link
4: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) so far is not reform, but some minor changes. - Speech Link
5: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) They have agreed and, in effect, colluded with Reform. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police Grant Report - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) That was not even Government policy; it just happened because they did not have a proper workforce plan - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) On AI, he is absolutely right that we need to ensure—I hope this is now the policy of the Opposition; - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) As part of this reform journey, we will have to reform the formula, because we are changing the structures - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) To me, they sound quite cool, like something out of “RoboCop”—which is not Government policy. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hughes Report: Second Anniversary - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Daniel Francis (Lab - Bexleyheath and Crayford) Unfortunately, for many people, valproate is the only drug that allows them to lead a normal life. - Speech Link
2: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) unusable personal protective equipment during a national emergency.Sodium valproate is an effective drug - Speech Link
3: Marie Goldman (LD - Chelmsford) No one knows the true damage that the drug may be causing victims as they grow older; those symptoms - Speech Link
4: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) We must ensure that such harm is never inflicted again.The Liberal Democrats are calling for a policy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) This clause will amend Sections 20 and 85 of the 2003 Act to restore the original policy intention that - Speech Link
2: None The culture of policing in this country is in urgent need of reform. - Speech Link
3: Lord Macdonald of River Glaven (XB - Life peer) When I was the head of the CPS, I strongly supported this reform. - Speech Link
4: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) That is where the gap in universal jurisdiction policy is quite relevant. - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Reform in this area must be evidence based and coherent. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Road Safety - Thu 05 Feb 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) They are speeding, antisocial driving, mobile phone use, alcohol and drug use, and not wearing a seatbelt - Speech Link
2: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) Road safety links to a lot of other policy areas.We need to think hard about enforcement, whether that - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) One issue that demands an even greater focus is drug driving. - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) on alternative methods of testing for drug driving and on licence suspension for those suspected of - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Lab - Life peer) My amendment therefore dovetails with the current policy. - Speech Link
2: None Then the Department for Business and Trade introduced a policy paper called a “licensing policy sprint - Speech Link
3: None I know that there is a licensing reform programme under way in her department. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Lab - Life peer) This is not a change in policy but a correction. - Speech Link
5: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) There is a general consensus that exercise is the wonder drug. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The policy statement was to phase out animal use in science, as announced by a Written Ministerial Statement - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) reports that that is the case for over 92% of drugs, and that failure makes up 75% of the cost of drug - Speech Link
3: None animal testing sites that are legally approved and highly regulated close because of protests, UK drug - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Town and City Centre Safety - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baggy Shanker (LAB - Derby South) Seeing drug users loitering on St Peter’s Street and on paths by the River Derwent has put him off popping - Speech Link
2: Baggy Shanker (LAB - Derby South) Families such as John’s tell me that they are worried about the drug and alcohol abuse they see on our - Speech Link
3: Baggy Shanker (LAB - Derby South) I urge the Minister to back reform with the investment and resources our local police forces need so - Speech Link
4: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham Erdington) Through that initiative, officers have made substantial arrests for violence, theft and drug offences - Speech Link
5: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) The changes set out in the police reform White Paper must be done right. - Speech Link