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Lords Chamber
UK Development Partnership Assistance - Thu 29 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hyde of Bemerton (Lab - Life peer) generosity and hospitality.Prisons loomed large over these communities in every sense: nearby were HMP Pentonville - Speech Link
2: Baroness Alexander of Cleveden (Lab - Life peer) But there are very few noble Lords who can match her long experience of our prison system, a prison PhD - Speech Link
3: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) I am delighted to hear that she has such a long-standing and impressive commitment to prison. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisoner Releases in Error - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None In that same time, there were 262 releases in error from prison. - Speech Link
2: None Their prison records show that none of them are convicted sex offenders. - Speech Link
3: None I pay tribute to prison officers, who are doing an incredibly important job, but as the Prison Officers - Speech Link
4: None Front-line prison officers were cut by a quarter between 2010 and 2017. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The Minister referred to the importance of having experienced prison officers, yet prison officer unions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prisoner Releases in Error - Tue 11 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) We are asking our prison officers to work in a system that the prison inspector himself has said is cracking - Speech Link
2: Andrew Pakes (LAB - Peterborough) As a Member who represents a prison constituency, I would like to put on record my thanks to prison and - Speech Link
3: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) All this will affect the prison system. - Speech Link
4: Paul Waugh (LAB - Rochdale) I put on record my thanks to all the prison officer staff at Buckley Hall prison in Rochdale, who have - Speech Link
5: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) I will look closely at his prison to see. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisoner Release Checks - Wed 29 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None When it became clear that he was no longer in the vicinity of the prison, Essex police were notified - Speech Link
2: None more people in prison at the end of this Parliament than there ever have been before. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) Why was that not done after the Pentonville fiasco earlier this year? - Speech Link
4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) : all of them had remained in prison for too long. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crown Immunity (Prisons)
1st reading - Tue 22 Jul 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Blair McDougall (Lab - East Renfrewshire) She was found hanging in a cell at 5.50 in the morning on 4 June 2018 at His Majesty’s Prison and Young - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice System: Capacity - Thu 17 Oct 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) release dates of some prisoners serving standard determinate sentences from 50% of time served in prison - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) estate, thereby helping us to make sure we have the prison places where we need them. - Speech Link
3: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) As a right-of-centre politician, I am sometimes sceptical of alternatives to prison. - Speech Link
4: Ben Goldsborough (Lab - South Norfolk) Friend look at how we can improve literacy and numeracy skills in our prison estate? - Speech Link
5: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) We will of course look at improved literacy and other skills within our prison estate. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prison Capacities - Thu 12 Sep 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Mann (Lab - Life peer) Near where I live, and once represented, is Ranby prison. - Speech Link
2: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) We need a vast improvement in prison education facilities. - Speech Link
3: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (XB - Life peer) Arrival in prison is a particularly high time of risk. - Speech Link
4: Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers (XB - Life Peer (judicial)) My Lords, the crisis in prison capacity results from the fact that the prison population of England and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Suitability for Fixed Term Recall) Order 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) Probation Service to bring an offender managed on licence in the community, following release from prison - Speech Link
2: Lord McNally (LD - Life peer) The Minister knows the crisis in our prison system. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) When I go to Pentonville, the first thing I ask is, “How many people did well at school?” - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) We know that a large number of people in prison, particularly in the male estate, are dyslexic. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 09 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) withdrawn from a Member of Parliament with a prison in his own area. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) The latest figures show that the reoffending rate among those leaving prison has increased. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) I am going to remain on the subject of the prison estate. - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) This is a Government who are committed to building 20,000 new, state-of-the-art prison places. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) capacity, the projected prison population and overcrowding; the quality of the prison estate; the prison - Speech Link
2: Conor McGinn (IND - St Helens North) It would cost far less to keep people out of prison, and to stop them going back into prison, than to - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) I agree that prison chaplains, prison priests, prison vicars and prison imams—we have an excellent imam - Speech Link