To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Westminster Hall
Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour - Wed 12 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (CON - Stockton South) Prevention is better than rehabilitation. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) Serious organised criminals have got a real grip, and the UK is Europe’s largest heroin market—I think - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill (Morning sitting)
Committee stage - Wed 15 Dec 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) In urine testing, some drugs such as heroin will be detectable for up to five days. - Speech Link
2: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) that, so the Opposition welcome it.Approved premises play an incredibly important role in the rehabilitation - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) There is an emphasis on rehabilitation and assistance, but it does not lose sight of the need for punitive - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) more space for the £780 million we will be spending on therapeutic interventions, particularly with heroin - Speech Link
2: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) Lady’s question, let me say that we are looking at all the other drivers: drugs rehabilitation and, in - Speech Link
3: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) The Lord Chancellor is absolutely right to say that the protection of the public and rehabilitation are - Speech Link
4: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) to make that a permanent reduction we need to reduce the demand for those drugs, particularly from heroin - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Medical Cannabis (Access) Bill - Fri 10 Dec 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) The same is true of morphine, which is sold illegally as heroin. - Speech Link
2: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) Why on earth is heroin subject to fewer controls for research purposes than the psychedelics? - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) From 1898 to 1913, a heroin-laced aspirin was available for the treatment of sore throats, coughs and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ten-Year Drugs Strategy - Thu 09 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) use and the positive impact on tax income, providing resources for community policing and drug rehabilitation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) Heroin-related deaths in England have more than doubled since 2012 and make up the largest proportion - Speech Link
3: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) My Lords, in the absence of any evidence-based drug policies in this country, which would include heroin - Speech Link
4: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) Baroness, Lady Meacher, the focus of one of the pillars is helping people with treatment and rehabilitation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ten-Year Drugs Strategy - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) The devolution of justice to Wales would allow a whole-system approach to offender rehabilitation. - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) , heroin-assisted treatment is under way in Cleveland. - Speech Link
3: Christian Wakeford (LAB - Bury South) When will the Government develop an addiction and rehabilitation strategy that will include alcohol? - Speech Link
4: James Daly (CON - Bury North) Although we want to concentrate on rehabilitation and ensure that we have the best treatment in place - Speech Link
5: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) Does he agree that we should pursue every possible solution, whether it is treatment, rehabilitation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 29 Oct 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) Let us never forget that rehabilitation means there will be less reoffending, and that in turn means - Speech Link
2: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) The aim, as I have said repeatedly, is rehabilitation. - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) Achieving that required restrictions of their normal activities, on the rehabilitation programmes and - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) Not only will that improve the rehabilitation of individual residents, but it will decrease the risk - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Dame Carol Black’s Independent Review of Drugs Report - Wed 27 Oct 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) Vital services have been cut back, particularly inpatient detoxification, residential rehabilitation, - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Also, I want the Minister to look into heroin-assisted treatment so that we can take a different approach - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) More than half of state-funded residential addiction rehabilitation centres in the UK have closed in - Speech Link
4: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) Some had been using street heroin for over 20 years, and all other treatment had failed. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
2nd reading - Tue 14 Sep 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) In addition, we will aid offender rehabilitation by reducing the time periods after which some sentences - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) Successful rehabilitation requires the support of many services which sit outside justice provision: - Speech Link
3: Lord Dholakia (LDEM - Life peer) of Offenders Act and to reduce the rehabilitation periods for offenders serving shorter sentences. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) of heroin addicts leading perfectly legal lives within 18 months. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Afghanistan - Wed 18 Aug 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) terrorists and crime networks, including the drug warlords who flood the streets of our country with heroin - Speech Link
2: Richard Drax (CON - South Dorset) While the Taliban want only to export their heroin, others will use the ungoverned space to foment and - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) about the fact that the Taliban are the world’s biggest drug cartel, producing 85% of the world’s heroin - Speech Link
4: Ruth Edwards (CON - Rushcliffe) Will he also join me in thanking the past and present staff of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre - Speech Link