Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Gentleman is right; people are claiming the article 8 right in particular and using domestic law to thwart - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) It plays a critical role in access to justice and a vital role in contributing to our economy. - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South and South Bedfordshire) Meaningful activity and access to education in prison are key to supporting those leaving prison with - Speech Link
4: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Indeed, I am going to a prison in just the next few weeks to look at literacy rates with my hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) of the emphasis in the Sentencing Bill on trying to stop people going to prison and keeping them in - Speech Link
2: None What 10 years ago might have been a punch in the face, five years ago might have been a stab to the arm - Speech Link
3: None person 28 times in the back, neck and head with a hunting knife in what the court was told was a “frenzied - Speech Link
4: None We need to invent a whole new regime for dealing with violent criminal behaviour from 10 years-old and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) using private companies to fine people in such a cavalier way discredits the whole cause. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) to a nation that has no legitimate claim to it—and paying it a fortune in the process. - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) There is even, I found to my surprise, in the middle of Mauritius, a village called Arsenal, with a football - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) That is a really good subject for us to get into in Committee, and we must test that to make sure that - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Helen Grant (Con - Maidstone and Malling) Smith and Simpson were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by a judge at Maidstone Crown court—at the - Speech Link
2: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab - Amber Valley) It consults widely with a variety of organisations, people working in the criminal justice system and - Speech Link
3: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) or threatens people with a knife, even repeatedly, to avoid prison. - Speech Link
4: None My amendments 16 and 25 would provide a number of exemptions to the presumption of a suspended prison - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) children with a parent in prison, but the guidance has not been properly maintained for years. - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) and a resolution, but want to see a very serious offender spend a long time in prison? - Speech Link
3: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) kick in with a two-and-a-half-year sentence. - Speech Link
4: Jess Asato (Lab - Lowestoft) clauses 10 and 11, which stand in my name, although I will not be pushing them to a vote. - Speech Link
5: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab - Calder Valley) I want to speak in support of new clauses 10 and 11, which would place a duty on authorities to guarantee - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) they are in fact 46 and not 45, with no obvious basis on which to ask for that and with all the attendant - Speech Link
2: Lord Bichard (XB - Life peer) this Bill and felt that it provides a good balance between the strategy that people have to get off - Speech Link
3: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) The suggestion, in its hyperbole, is that we are going to face a Wild West of people opposing this and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) a year in costs to our health and care service. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 24 and 25 in this group. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) We all know that it is hard to get sent to prison in the first place, and judges and magistrates do not - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Do they ensure that people get a second chance, and get help where they need it—in the place where they - Speech Link
3: None He was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Russell (Lab - Congleton) People spend a lot of time in prison, and at the moment it is not being used as effectively as I and - Speech Link
5: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Putting people in prison for a few weeks costs the taxpayer huge amounts and leads to further reoffending - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) mission and aim to halve—yes, halve—knife crime and violence against women and girls in a decade.For - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) up to six months’ imprisonment and issued with a fine if found guilty in a summary trial. - Speech Link
3: Lord Cashman (Non-affiliated - Life peer) To attack and denigrate such people and portray them as a threat to others is, in my opinion, to debase - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) We have to allow people to disrupt, make a noise and get noticed. That is democracy. - Speech Link
5: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) dealing with people who are easier to locate, who owe money anyway and who are in possession of a substantial - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lee Anderson (RUK - Ashfield) In 2023, only 28% of people caught with a knife went to prison, down from 33% in 2018. - Speech Link
2: Bayo Alaba (Lab - Southend East and Rochford) I have lost some friends to knife crime and over the last 25 years, when I have been mentoring people - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton) Reported knife and offensive weapon offences have risen from 220 in 2014 to 413 10 years later—a significant - Speech Link
4: Danny Kruger (RUK - East Wiltshire) regretted.For the last 20 years, I have run a charity working with people in prisons and with ex-offenders—many - Speech Link
5: Sarah Pochin (RUK - Runcorn and Helsby) without a knife, and an older man going to a pub with a knife in his pocket.This is an interesting issue - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) It is estimated that there are almost 200,000 children with a parent in prison in England and Wales, - Speech Link
2: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) identifying and supporting children with a parent in prison. - Speech Link
3: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) cases, given lip service to in the past—to get support for which you do not have to fight and be a tiger - Speech Link
4: None I went into the cell with a prison officer, and he pointed to his grade A* GCSE maths certificate on - Speech Link
5: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) There seems to have been a lot of drift and expansion in definitions, and we need to get back to something - Speech Link