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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) I am delighted that they have chosen the committee’s report on prisons, Better Prisons: Less Crime, for - Speech Link
2: Lord Redwood (Con - Life peer) for those who need drugs. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wheatcroft (XB - Life peer) There is a prevailing culture of acceptance of drugs in our prisons. This cannot be right. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) become involved in gang culture“because they had an interest in drill … with its themes of violence, drugs - Speech Link
2: None Put bluntly, if the prisons collapse, we cannot protect anyone. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None To be clear, a 13 year-old child does not, apropos of nothing, come up with the idea to traffic drugs - Speech Link
2: None In 2022, children were used in investigations involving Class A drugs and firearms. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I want to stress that Faisal was no angel—he was involved in the drugs trade; he was a teenager in a - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) or weapons into prisons. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) The Courts Minister and the Prisons Minister are working together on this issue. - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Gentleman will know that we inherited a prison capacity crisis with violence up and drugs up in our prisons - Speech Link
3: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) The use of drones to bring contraband into prisons has become a significant issue. - Speech Link
4: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Friend and the Prisons Minister to discuss these issues in a bit more detail. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hazarika (Lab - Life peer) I would like our rather overcrowded prisons to be housing serious offenders, not abused women who have - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) I am not generally happy about decriminalisation, such as in relation to drugs. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) safely.When Mr Worby received the drugs, he first added mifepristone to food and drink. - Speech Link
4: None If the body is not contracting, drugs are administered. - Speech Link
5: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) Doctors administer these drugs. Doctors look after us in childbirth. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prison Capacity: Annual Statement - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) prison population projections and supply forecasts, and the picture that it paints is clear: our prisons - Speech Link
2: Nick Timothy (Con - West Suffolk) All he and his colleagues are doing is turning up to new prisons to cut the ribbon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
ADHD Diagnosis - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield Hallam) We have heard about suicide rates, prisons and unemployment among young people, and young people being - Speech Link
2: Sarah Hall (LAB - Warrington South) While waiting, some self-medicated with alcohol or drugs, not to escape but simply to cope. - Speech Link
3: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) Around 25% of people in our prisons have ADHD—although, that is probably an underestimation. - Speech Link
4: Zubir Ahmed (Lab - Glasgow South West) Gentleman will know, I have a lot of things in my purview, but prisons are not one of them. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None It was about using the seized assets of people who were plying drugs on the streets of Liverpool. - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) I used to make a habit of visiting prisons and so forth, when I was shadow Minister of Prisons—before - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prisons: Illegal Drugs - Thu 15 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) a “menu of drugs” entering our prisons through a variety of methods. - Speech Link
2: Bobby Dean (LD - Carshalton and Wallington) The Chair spoke a bit about the shocking developments in the supply of drugs into prisons, but can he - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) of drugs, rehabilitation is extremely difficult in prisons. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Human Rights Abuses: Magnitsky Sanctions - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Roca (Lab - Macclesfield) August 2009, he said:“Justice, under such conditions turns into the process of grinding human meat for prisons - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) in seizing $24 million and over €2.6 million from Russian money laundering networks with links to drugs - Speech Link