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Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None planning powers only where the constituent local authorities have been consulted and, within limits prescribed - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) bodies, something that enables priority to be given to this way of producing homes that will end our dependence - Speech Link
3: None particularly in those early parts of a healthy lifestyle and of stopping things such as obesity and drug - Speech Link
4: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) There is a general consensus that exercise is the wonder drug. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) heard the mantra from all sides of this House over many years that the UK needs to get people off dependence - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) “Afghan drug user allowed to stay in the UK because Taliban is harsh on addicts”. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Mental Health Bill [HL]
Committee stage part one - Wed 22 Jan 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) My Lords, my Amendments 50 and 51 are both about the importance of non-drug-based interventions. - Speech Link
2: Lord Crisp (XB - Life peer) I also note the points made by the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, about non-drug therapies, which relate - Speech Link
3: None 450,000 children and young people, almost 4,000 of them under 10, were prescribed antidepressants in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal symptoms. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th Sitting - Tue 14 Jan 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Nicotine also fulfils all the criteria for drug dependence. - Speech Link
2: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Gentleman is right to raise the importance of managing nicotine dependence for those with mental health - Speech Link
3: None most vapes and all consumer nicotine products is nicotine, which when inhaled is a highly addictive drug - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) and we have published the first ever UK-wide clinical guidelines on harmful drinking and alcohol dependence - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) strategy, we have committed an extra £532 million of funding over three years to improve alcohol and drug - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) It has the worst level of drug death rates in Europe, the highest alcohol death rates in 14 years, and - Speech Link
4: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) taking to ascertain the cause of ongoing problems affecting access to riluzole, the only licensed drug - Speech Link
5: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Community pharmacists are dispensing some of the country’s most widely prescribed drugs at a loss, therefore - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Benefit Claimants: Free Prescriptions - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of London (Bshp - Bishops) public services, any poor health they experience may worsen if they do not take the medication prescribed - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) relief to the poor through workhouses, which were intended to be austere institutions to discourage dependence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Can the Minister confirm that statins, asthma medication and drug treatments for mental health conditions - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Healthcare: Controlled Drugs - Thu 14 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) The practitioner is unable to prescribe prescribed drugs such as intravenous lorazepam to control the - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I therefore declare my interest as a founder member of the Prescribed Drug Dependence—PDD—All-Party Parliamentary - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) that professional A could have prescribed themselves. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Human Medicines (Amendment Relating to Original Pack Dispensing) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2023 - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) as possible, with exceptions in specific circumstances when the prescribed quantity must be dispensed.The - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Mental Health Treatment and Support - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) I am very proud to work with her on the all-party parliamentary group for prescribed drug dependence, - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) Drug-related deaths are at a record high, and last year there were 9,641 deaths in the UK from alcohol - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Psilocybin Treatments - Thu 18 May 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) I speak as the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for prescribed drug dependence. - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) It is a strange time for drug reform in many ways. - Speech Link