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Westminster Hall
School Exclusions - Wed 26 Feb 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) There is a link with gender: males are more than twice as likely to be excluded as females. - Speech Link
2: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) The published Ministry of Justice figures show that 42% of prisoners have been permanently excluded from - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Offender Management and Treatment - Thu 03 Oct 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Ramsbotham (CB - Life peer) violence against staff, the prevalence of drugs, the amount of self-harm and suicide, the number of prisoners - Speech Link
2: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) here.Indeterminate sentence prisoners face real problems, particularly those with short tariffs. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Masham of Ilton (CB - Life peer) Are books being restricted to prisoners in some prisons? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Criminal Justice System: Women - Thu 25 Jul 2019
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) This rises to over 80% of female prisoners. - Speech Link
2: Lord Parekh (LAB - Life peer) First, how do we reduce the number of female offenders and prisoners? - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) Many agencies agree on the common factors among women prisoners. - Speech Link
4: Lord Keen of Elie (CON - Life peer) Female prisoners are more than twice as likely as male prisoners to report needing help for mental health - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Female Offender Strategy: One Year On - Wed 24 Jul 2019
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) Many have a history of self-harm and 49% of women prisoners report mental health needs, including anxiety - Speech Link
2: Chris Ruane (LAB - Vale of Clwyd) In Wales, a massive 74% of women prisoners are serving sentences of six months or less. - Speech Link
3: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) This is not unique to female prisoners. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) According to the Prison Reform Trust, 57% of women prisoners have experienced domestic abuse. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 Jul 2019
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) We understand the reasons for it, but it is very painful for many of my constituents—females born in - Speech Link
2: Robert Buckland (CON - South Swindon) translating into real change, with the key worker scheme allowing prison officers to work with individual prisoners - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 12 Jun 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kelly Tolhurst (CON - Rochester and Strood) I am proud to be a Minister sitting on the Front Bench among many other females: that just shows that - Speech Link
2: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) so what are the Government doing to ensure that prisons have experienced staff to assist female prisoners - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) When researchers recently screened all the women prisoners at Drake Hall prison in Staffordshire for - Speech Link
4: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) We take the issue of prisoners’ brain injury very seriously and, indeed, action is being taken by the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment - Thu 06 Jun 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Rock (CON - Life peer) students only said they would consider a career in technology, compared to 61% of males, and only 3% of females - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wheatcroft (CB - Life peer) However, two years ago, there was a manifesto promise of NIC holidays for companies taking on ex-prisoners - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Privatised Probation System - Mon 04 Mar 2019
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) demonstrated that by bringing in non-state providers, concentrating on a cohort of short-sentence prisoners - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) Is it not vital, where prisoners with a brain injury have started some form of rehabilitation in prison - Speech Link
3: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) look after themselves, and of course through the use of release on temporary licence, we can get prisoners - Speech Link
4: Roberta Blackman-Woods (LAB - City of Durham) sector and resource it properly so that it can really bring about the genuine rehabilitation of prisoners - Speech Link
5: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) Generally, short-sentence prisoners who are in for under 12 months are overwhelmingly dominated by chaotic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Violent Crime - Thu 29 Nov 2018
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (CB - Life peer) When I visit those prisoners, one of the things that creates anguish in them and in me, because of the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) “Charles was referred to our service due to concerns around his inappropriate touching of younger females - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Self-identification of Gender - Wed 21 Nov 2018
Home Office

Mentions:
1: David T C Davies (CON - Monmouth) there had been any change to the guidance given to prison authorities about housing transgender prisoners - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (LAB - Nottingham South) Gentleman appears to argue that women prisoners need protection only from trans women. - Speech Link
3: David T C Davies (CON - Monmouth) could, but the reality is that the vast majority of sexual assaults are carried out by males against females - Speech Link