Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jun 2015
Oral Answers to Questions
"Cuts to legal aid have meant that lots of our constituents are finding it even more difficult to access justice, and often they are the most vulnerable constituents who come to see us at our surgeries as a result. What is the new Justice Secretary going to do to make …..."Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 28 Nov 2014
Immigration Statistics
"What is happening now then? It has gone up...."Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 28 Nov 2014
Immigration Statistics
"Why should we be surprised that net migration is now higher than it was under Labour, given that, as we learn in today’s Daily Mirror, Tory donor Lord Wolfson’s company, Next, recruits en masse in Poland for jobs that it does not advertise in Britain? Why did the Prime …..."Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Nov 2014
Prison Communications
"The Secretary of State said that Members were correctly identified on the system in 15 cases, but the calls were still recorded and appear to have been listened to. Is it possible that a criminal offence was committed by someone listening to those calls in the full knowledge that they …..."Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Sep 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"Following representations from me and others to the Minister’s predecessor, I welcome the fact that the Government reversed their decision on having steel-strung guitars for prisoners in prison cells. Will he update us on how the reversal of that policy is going? Have there been any problems, and does he …..."Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 1st September 2014
Asked by:
Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the balance between benefit and risk of permitting prisoners to have access to steel strung guitars in their cells.
Answered by Andrew Selous
Following feedback from prison Governors, we have made some minor adjustments to the property prisoners are allowed to have under the revised Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) framework, including metal guitar strings. Governors were notified on 15 July 2014 that, with immediate effect, it was open to them to include full metal guitar strings on their local facilities lists. This allows eligible prisoners to purchase them for use on acoustic guitars kept in-cell.
Full metal strings are, as with the nylon and metal coiled strings which were already permitted, available by application only, issued on a one-for-one basis, and subject to local risk assessment. As with the nylon and metal coiled strings, Governors can make them available to prisoners on the Standard and Enhanced levels of the IEP framework.
Written Question
Wednesday 9th July 2014
Asked by:
Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of levels of occupancy in prisons in Wales.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
Individual prison population and capacity information for every prison in England and Wales is published monthly on the Ministry of Justice website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014
Prisons are not expected to operate above their operational capacity and ensuring that this capacity is set to reflect the provision of safe and decent accommodation and the operation of suitable regimes ensures that levels of crowding in prisons are carefully managed.
Sensible measures have been taken to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to deal with any temporary increases in population. These include creating additional places in prisons in a safe and decent way and ensuring that prisons reflect the needs of the current population.
We will end this Parliament with more adult male prison places than we inherited, more hours of work in prisons than we inherited, more education for young detainees than we inherited and a more modern, cost effective prison estate than we inherited.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"I thank the Prisons Minister for meeting me and Billy Bragg recently to discuss the issue of guitars in prisoners’ cells. I welcome the fact that the Minister confirmed that his decision will be taken on the security advice that he receives. Has he had that advice, has it told …..."Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Jun 2014
Prison Overcrowding
"Rehabilitation is important, and purposeful activity is particularly important, including the learning of musical instruments. Will the Justice Secretary ask his prisons Minister, the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, the hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Jeremy Wright), to approach with an open mind the meeting that I am having …..."Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 06 May 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"A hearse, a hearse, my kingdom for a hearse!..."Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
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