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Written Question
Prisoners: Clothing
Wednesday 16th July 2014

Asked by: Baroness Corston (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the implementation of the Prison Service Instruction 30/2013, which prohibits prisoners from receiving parcels from relatives, whether any prisons have introduced measures to help women who no longer have access to sufficient underwear.

Answered by Lord Faulks

In order to ensure that women have access to sufficient underwear, there is now no restriction on the number of pairs of underwear women in prison can have in their cells (subject to standard overarching volumetric limits on property held in possession).

Written Question
Prisoners: Sanitary Protection
Wednesday 16th July 2014

Asked by: Baroness Corston (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a full range of sanitary products is provided to female prisoners, or whether they have to be purchased.

Answered by Lord Faulks

All prisons across the female custodial estate provide Interlude tampons and sanitary towels to women free of charge. Other brands of sanitary products are available for women to buy via the National Product list.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Apr 2014
Prisons: Education and Training

"My Lords, the Minister just referred to purposeful activity for those who are in our prisons. I know of one women’s prison where this activity is filling sandwiches for Pret A Manger. Is this the kind of purposeful activity to which he refers?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Nov 2013
Prisons: Prisoners with Children

"My Lords, 17,000 children a year are affected by their mothers’ imprisonment. Given that the Government plan to close two women’s prisons, which means that there will be only 12 women’s prisons in England and Wales and which will lead to much longer journeys for those visiting their mothers and, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Jul 2013
EU Treaties: Justice and Home Affairs Opt-Outs

"My Lords, does the Minister accept that it does not require what he calls “careful time” to consider the European arrest warrant? Criminals are not fools. If we opt out, they will go and live in Spain, the way they used to years ago, beyond the reach of British law. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Jun 2013
Offender Rehabilitation Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I am delighted to support the amendment tabled in the name of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf. It is 15 months now since we had the first vote specifically on this issue that I can remember. At that time there was a tied vote and we …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 27 Mar 2013
Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012

"My Lords, is the Minister suggesting that my noble and learned friend Lady Scotland is either scaremongering or not telling the truth?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Jan 2013
Transforming Rehabilitation

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Jan 2013
Transforming Rehabilitation

"My Lords, given that we are in nearly the third year of this Government and still have no published strategy for women offenders and those at risk of offending, I ask the Minister a short question and hope that his answer will be both short and positive. Will he confirm …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 18 Dec 2012
Crime and Courts Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, on tabling this amendment, for which I signify my support. However, I have to convey to the House an element of great frustration in that by the time the strategy which we have been promised is published three years …..."
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