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Lords Chamber
Accidental Prison Releases - Mon 10 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) First, they did not build enough prisons and did not maintain the prisons that they had. - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) When I was last in opposition, in the 2000s, I was shadow Prisons Minister and visited 75 of the prisons - Speech Link
3: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) It is clear that our prisons need investment and that we need to build new prisons. - Speech Link
4: Lord Harris of Haringey (Lab - Life peer) In the best prisons, that was a very detailed process. - Speech Link
5: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) Too many people are leaving prison still addicted to drugs and alcohol. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prison Services: Insourcing - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) outcomes than privately managed prisons? - Speech Link
2: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) I can show you some excellent private sector prisons and some excellent public sector prisons, and I - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Why are there drugs in prisons? - Speech Link
4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) to us that they are addicted to drugs and alcohol. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Mon 03 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) have that possibility in the future”, but, as with anything—such as if we were trying to tackle new drugs - Speech Link
2: Lord Bach (Lab - Life peer) There are two schemes for providing legal advice in immigration removal centres and prisons: the detained - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) were supposed to respond.Previously, on the attempt to remove people to Rwanda, the Inspectorate of Prisons - Speech Link
4: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) ; they were evident well before the UK-France deal and were highlighted by the Chief Inspector of Prisons - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The state of prisons is incredibly depressing at the moment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Report stage - Wed 29 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) As she said, the chief inspector of prisons has found that rehabilitation in prisons is not working. - Speech Link
2: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) We must also make prisons work. - Speech Link
3: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Reform UK say that we should build paperweight temporary prisons. - Speech Link
4: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) We will ensure that there is capacity in our prisons to keep law and order on the streets. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Devolution in Scotland - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) standards that were once the envy of Europe, a housing emergency and stubbornly high poverty, and the drugs - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) absurd Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, we would have biological men in women’s spaces—prisons - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) Three further prisons will also be built. - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) Three prisons were built, with 8,500 places—they were delayed because of lockdown—and another three prisons - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) To do that, they have to build more prisons. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ending Homelessness - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) step in: hospitals discharging patients on to the street; jobcentres overlooking signs of distress; prisons - Speech Link
2: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool Riverside) There were people losing their legs due to injecting, or using drugs or alcohol to self-medicate because - Speech Link
3: Lillian Jones (Lab - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Some of those deaths were linked to drugs misuse—another crisis the Scottish Government have failed to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
2nd reading - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) internal concealment, or plugging, where children or vulnerable adults are coerced into concealing drugs - Speech Link
2: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) That must change because drugs are deeply intertwined with serious violence and linked to more than half - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) Our prisons are under strain. - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) During childbirth, specific drugs are administered and offered for pain management and the prevention - Speech Link
5: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) I know that the noble Lord, Lord Timpson, does so much incredible work as Prisons Minister and, in a - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Menopause Day - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Kirsteen Sullivan (LAB - Bathgate and Linlithgow) transition, you would think that it would be better understood, but from doctors’ surgeries through to prisons - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) How do the Government plan to tackle geographical inequality in the availability of these drugs? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Knife Crime - Wed 15 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lee Anderson (RUK - Ashfield) crossing the English channel in small boats, and I asked how many of them have been found carrying drugs - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) recall the occasion when my son was a manager of a shop in Newtownards and someone came in high on drugs - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (RUK - East Wiltshire) are to be enormously regretted.For the last 20 years, I have run a charity working with people in prisons - Speech Link
4: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) Lady’s point.I sit on the Justice Committee, and I have visited prisons and spoken to young people. - Speech Link