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Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) Will an effort be made to make these specialist drugs, which in many instances are effectively regarded - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Prisons and police cells are no place for people with mental ill-health. - Speech Link
3: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) companies to make sure that we can get affordable drugs to families who desperately need them and are - Speech Link
4: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall South) respect orders, with criminal sanctions for antisocial behaviour.The Government have not even looked at prisons - Speech Link
5: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) We will remove prisons and police cells as places of safety to ensure that people in crisis are supported - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) again today, and declare my interest as Anglican Bishop for His Majesty’s Prisons. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) Virtually all the homeless people I have worked with have been smokers and users of drugs and all sorts - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I listened carefully to her points, which admittedly were linked to prisons but did focus on the very - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) impose strict requirements, such as electronic tags, curfews, exclusion zones, and bans on drink or drugs - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) The first is prisons and sentencing. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) It is one element of prevention, including drugs, alcohol, young people and education, to which we do - Speech Link
4: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) having to face traumatic adversity, falling into the arms of criminal gangs and entering the world of drugs - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) On the specific issue of racism in prisons, the Prisons Strategy White Paper sets out our vision for - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (Risk of Being Drawn into Terrorism) (Revised Guidance) Regulations 2023 - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Secretary of State taken since the independent review to address this and combat radicalisation in prisons - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) the risk of radicalisation sits alongside wider safeguarding duties, including tackling harms such as drugs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prisons - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) removed 14,700 foreign national offenders from the country, but there are still 10,000 FNOs in our prisons - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) The overcrowding crisis in our prisons has been looming for years, with the National Audit Office, the - Speech Link
3: Paul Holmes (Con - Eastleigh) The shadow Minister has mentioned overcrowding in our prisons, which is a problem. - Speech Link
4: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) We must be honest: the pressure in our prisons is the result of decades of underfunding. - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) sentences for the worst offenders, and also with the progress on rehabilitation and what has been done on drugs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prison Capacity - Tue 17 Oct 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) There are over 10,000 foreign nationals in our prisons. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) I now turn to the Government’s programme to build new prisons. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) Certainly, the focus on dealing with alcohol and, indeed, drugs is very much on the Government’s mind - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prison Capacity - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) That is more than 6,000 more people in our prisons out of a total of some 88,000. - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) I understand that the Lord Chancellor was inspired by Texas prisons. - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) whose offending behaviour is driven by substance misuse can get the treatment they need to get them off drugs - Speech Link
4: James Sunderland (CON - Bracknell) I also thank the prisons Minister for his engagement over the weekend. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2023 - Tue 19 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) It proposes an amendment to paragraph 1(a) of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) figures say the SI will have an expected cost of £68 million to the police, courts, Probation Service and prisons - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Alister Jack (CON - Dumfries and Galloway) There is no safe way to take illegal drugs. - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) The chief inspector of prisons said that conditions in Wandsworth were so bad that it should be shut - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) Probation, prisons, schools, China—yet again, inaction man fails to heed the warnings and then blames - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) Friend is right to say that prisoners who are violent towards people working and living in prisons will - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) The Government will amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 this afternoon. - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Advocate’s new policy not to prosecute drug users for possession offences committed within a pilot safer drugs - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) periods for the serious offence of causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs - Speech Link
4: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) The scale of the illegal drugs problem in prisons was such that five years ago the Government introduced - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) recovery wings and incentivised subsidised free living, and ensuring that security is able to stop drugs - Speech Link