Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Feb 2015
Oral Answers to Questions
"16. How many prisoners on remand committed suicide in the last five years; and how many such people were in safe cells...."Bob Russell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Feb 2015
Oral Answers to Questions
"I am grateful for that answer, but if the Prison Service had taken any notice of my Adjournment debate in 2000 on safer cells in prison, it would know that the quick arithmetic is that several hundred lives would have been saved. Will the Minister give an assurance that the …..."Bob Russell - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 6th November 2014
Asked by:
Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat - Colchester)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to implement a replacement programme to introduce LED lighting throughout his Department's buildings and sites; if he will estimate the proportion of lighting in his Department which is LED; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Simon Hughes
The Ministry of Justice is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.
Reporting against the Greening Government Commitment (GGC) targets, in 2013/14, the Department reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 17% from 2012/13 against the 2009/10 baseline. This equates to a 95057 tCO2e reduction.
As part of its programme to replace inefficient lighting at its sites the Department will continue to install LEDs and other forms of energy saving lighting wherever it is possible and economically viable to do so.
Information on the proportion of sites that have LED lighting is not recorded centrally. As the MOJ has one of the largest estates in Government comprising nearly 1,500 properties (including prisons and courts), the information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
In addition to replacing inefficient lighting, the Ministry of Justice is also reducing greenhouse gas emissions through using energy saving measures such as motion-activated lighting, timers and behavioural change campaigns.
Written Question
Thursday 6th November 2014
Asked by:
Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat - Colchester)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will issue guidance to operators of (a) courts and (b) prisons that they should implement a replacement programme to introduce LED lighting in those buildings.
Answered by Simon Hughes
The Ministry of Justice is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.
Reporting against the Greening Government Commitment (GGC) targets, in 2013/14, the Department reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 17% from 2012/13 against the 2009/10 baseline. This equates to a 95057 tCO2e reduction.
As part of its programme to replace inefficient lighting at its sites the Department will continue to install LEDs and other forms of energy saving lighting wherever it is possible and economically viable to do so.
Information on the proportion of sites that have LED lighting is not recorded centrally. As the MOJ has one of the largest estates in Government comprising nearly 1,500 properties (including prisons and courts), the information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
In addition to replacing inefficient lighting, the Ministry of Justice is also reducing greenhouse gas emissions through using energy saving measures such as motion-activated lighting, timers and behavioural change campaigns.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Oct 2014
Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill
"Does the Minister accept that if first aid was made part of the national curriculum, there would be a whole generation of young people coming through who knew what to do in a road crash, for example? The first rule for those going to assist in a road crash is …..."Bob Russell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Oct 2014
Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill
"Will the shadow Minister join me in congratulating all those involved in producing the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year? An estimated 40,000 lives have been saved in the workplace, and there was not a single fatality during the construction of …..."Bob Russell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
"At Prime Minister’s questions, I asked:
“Why is he ignoring knife crime?”
In reply, the Prime Minister said:
“As well as tackling gun crime, we are introducing tougher sentences for the possession of knives as illegal weapons.”—[Official Report, 28 February 2007; Vol. 457, c. 924.]
That is …..."Bob Russell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
"Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the Home Affairs Committee report on knife crime, published in 2008-09, which addressed all the points that he has so far raised?..."Bob Russell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."Bob Russell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
"The Minister, quite rightly, is using his words carefully. Following the intervention from my hon. Friend the Member for Reigate (Crispin Blunt), would the sentence be mandatory, or would judges still have an element of discretion?..."Bob Russell - View Speech
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