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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) Thousands of drones are being used to smuggle contraband such as weapons and drugs into prisons. - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Over the course of both my career in law and my career in the House, I have visited very many prisons - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) In fact, there are 10,772 foreign nationals in our prisons, and that figure has gone up under Labour. - Speech Link
4: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) The Prisons Minister in the other place is already working with the Women’s Justice Board to look at - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) , self-harm up in prisons, suicide skyrocketing in prisons, assaults rising by 113% and assaults on staff - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Is it drugs? Is it alcohol? Is it addiction? What is going on? - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) The number of foreign prisoners in our prisons has gone up under Labour. - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) Prisons in England and Wales are almost at capacity. - Speech Link
5: John McDonnell (Ind - Hayes and Harlington) It has had an impact on the number of staff working in our prisons. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal of Prisoners for Deportation) Order 2025 - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) we asked the review to look at was how we tackle the number of foreign national offenders in our prisons - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) for example, the use of police cells where there has been simply no space for custody within our prisons - Speech Link
3: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Five hundred fewer places in our prisons accounts for just 5% of that total cost. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal Of Prisoners For Deportation Order 2025) (First sitting) - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Nicholas Dakin (Lab - Scunthorpe) we asked the review to look at was how we tackle the number of foreign national offenders in our prisons - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) We support further reforms to the removal of foreign national offenders from our prisons. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage part one - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) constable.In 2018, Section 50 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 was amended to include lay observers in prisons - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) The people who are coming out and causing trouble, whether they are on drugs or whatever, have no idea - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) of the pharmaceutical code of practice by Novo Nordisk, one of the companies behind new weight loss drugs - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) abducted by jihadist groups in Syria—including, unfortunately, prolonged sexual violence in underground prisons - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) Are this Government prepared to do what it takes and clean up yet another Tory prisons mess? - Speech Link
2: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) There is a problem in our prisons across the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) measures to prevent drugs and other illicit items from entering prisons. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Edwards (Lab - Tamworth) Drugs, phones and weapons are often dropped in by drone. - Speech Link
5: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) I believe the Prisons Minister may well be attending the event that the right hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Alcohol and Cancer - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) have a particular interest in this subject: I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on drugs - Speech Link
2: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Officials are considering that report from the APPG on drugs, alcohol and justice. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisons: Mothers and Babies - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) We have recently introduced social workers in four prisons. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) mothers in those units, how is the monitoring undertaken to make sure that they are not being given drugs - Speech Link
3: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) familiar with the exact details on testing, but I know that we have mandatory drug testing in all prisons - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Fri 04 Jul 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (XB - Life peer) Those of us who work in prisons week in, week out, know very well that it is not. - Speech Link
2: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) I had a very enjoyable time in Nicaragua visiting its prisons. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) , boasting about how they are going to earn 100 times more than prison officers by selling class-A drugs - Speech Link
4: None addressing this, urgently working with HMPPS to make sure that people are transferred to the best prisons - Speech Link