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Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None The specified offences, which are listed in the new schedule, include drugs offences, sexual offences - Speech Link
2: None Finally, let me again address the prisons crisis. - Speech Link
3: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) Still others were under the influence of drink and drugs. - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) He began…supplying her with alcohol and drugs to the point she developed a dependency on alcohol. - Speech Link
5: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool, Riverside) With prisons not only chronically overcrowded but unsafe, as highlighted by the recent prisons inspectorate - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) found in prisons over the last five years. - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) prisoners had easy access to drugs, and our current Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry into prisons has - Speech Link
3: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) , as well as the massive use of prescription drugs, which many people in prisons tell me are causing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Parc Prison - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) Prison staff are being targeted to smuggle drugs into our prisons. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) drugs are in the community—and they are in the local community in various areas around a number of prisons—that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Parc Prison - Mon 13 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) A current prisoner at Parc recently wrote to the Welsh Affairs Committee:“Drugs are everywhere in prison - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Drugs are fuelling the violence that we see in our prisons. - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) We are also supporting the Welsh emerging drugs and identification of novel substances project through - Speech Link
4: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) Some parents, including that constituent, have raised concerns over a long period about drugs. - Speech Link
5: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) Across England and Wales, prisons come under my jurisdiction as Prisons Minister. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
End of Custody Supervised Licence Scheme: Extension - Mon 13 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) I understand they are doing it because the prisons are too full. - Speech Link
2: Lord Empey (UUP - Life peer) prisons such as Wandsworth. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) I would encourage noble Lords to visit those very modern and effective prisons. - Speech Link
4: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) into line with civilised patterns in other countries and away from the problems with overcrowding and drugs - Speech Link


Written Statements
HMP Wandsworth - Mon 13 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) This statement concerns the decision by HM chief inspector of prisons to invoke an urgent notification - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cass Review - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) People were just put on drugs and expected to get on with it. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) who are fully intact and have been convicted of serious sexual offences, are demanding to be held in prisons - Speech Link
3: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) The Cass report highlights the area of prescribing untested and irreversible drugs as puberty blockers - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) We want to ensure that these drugs are prescribed to the right people, if they should be prescribed at - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Derek Twigg (Lab - Halton) The problem of course is that in too many prisons there is a high incidence of drugs getting in, so what - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Member is right: it is of course really important that we tackle drugs coming into prisons. - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) We have the £100 million security measures to tackle illicit drugs and mobile phones—the sorts of things - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) resolved in the magistrates court, which includes burglaries, thefts, assaults, criminal damage and drugs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Security - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) disease-resistant crops, as well as disease-resistant animals and birds, which will reduce the need for drugs - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) report about using the Government’s purchasing power to ensure that more food in our hospitals and prisons - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prevention of Future Deaths Report: Terance Radford - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lee Anderson (RUK - Ashfield) he did not look right; he was talking funny and his behaviour was strange, as though he had been on drugs - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) For 14 years, we have seen a crisis in our criminal justice system—crises in our courts, our prisons - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) failings—let us call them what they are—and tragic circumstances of this case underline the importance of prisons - Speech Link