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Lords Chamber
Prison Capacity - Wed 24 Jul 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) It was only by pure luck, and the heroic efforts of prison and probation staff, that disaster did not - Speech Link
2: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) on the gates of the prison. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) I am all for new prison places, as long as they are not in addition to all the crumbling prison places - Speech Link
4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) probation staff have not always been able to manage the transition from prison to the community as well - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration and Home Affairs - Tue 23 Jul 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We have five months—[Interruption.] - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We have five months of this. - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) Is it any wonder that with the prison population so high and conditions near uninhabitable, prison as - Speech Link
4: Sojan Joseph (Lab - Ashford) Staff lack morale, and mental health services, in particular, are deteriorating. - Speech Link
5: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) James Heappey is the former Member for Wells. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Unlike the prison officers, neither private security staff nor receiving court staff are equipped with - Speech Link
2: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) I am not wedded to the sentence being five or six years in prison, or to the amount of the fine; we can - Speech Link
3: None I pay tribute to our prison staff, who take risks every day in prisons. - Speech Link
4: None Staff do not have the same defensive and protective arrangements that they would have in a prison. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) the Prison Service stepping in to manage it, as it has done with Birmingham Prison? - Speech Link
2: Mary Robinson (Con - Cheadle) Managing prison capacity is in part about ensuring that we have enough prison officers, but being a prison - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) both staff and the prison to make progress following that urgent notification. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
End of Custody Supervised Licence Scheme: Extension - Mon 13 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) This means ensuring that no prison exceeds a safe maximum operating limit. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I think the House is well aware of the pressures on the prison estate. - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) has been allocated, and we have opened His Majesty’s Prison Fosse Way and HMP Five Wells. - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) All assaults on prison staff are utterly unacceptable. - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) We have opened Five Wells and Fosse Way, and Millsike is under construction. - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Let me set out what we have done in respect of prison and probation staff. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None Meanwhile, we are pushing ahead with the biggest prison building programme since the Victorian era. - Speech Link
2: None That will allow front-line staff to maximise supervision of the most serious offenders. - Speech Link
3: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) prison to prison, impacting on education and training, community contacts, family visits and relationships - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day: Language in Politics - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) to it; but now I have grown so sad that every year there are the same cases of systems failures, prison - Speech Link
2: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) My staff are criticised for working for me, when all they have done is apply for a job that they thought - Speech Link
3: Carolyn Harris (Lab - Swansea East) Earlier this month, Avanti showcased its menopause toolkit for staff. - Speech Link
4: Carolyn Harris (Lab - Swansea East) That is the reality for women in prison. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bragg (Lab - Life peer) Consequently, staff numbers in music and other arts have dropped dramatically. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Rebuck (Lab - Life peer) Things has clocked up 11 Oscar nominations and the film of Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest has five - Speech Link
3: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Art and creative subjects are excluded from the five EBacc subject groups, causing some schools to drop - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) Why can this not apply to UK staff who are employed in the UK but work in other countries? - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) According to the DCMS’s participation survey, more than four in five adults engaged with the arts in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) for our prison staff to work with them to tackle their addictions, improve their employability, manage - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) been in prison for, say, one year, their reoffending rate over that year while they are in prison is - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) million for more prison places. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) in the prison estate. - Speech Link
5: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Ladywood) in the prison estate. - Speech Link
6: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way have opened in the last two years. - Speech Link