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Lords Chamber
Better Prisons: Less Crime (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) prison system is“operating either in or at the verge of crisis most of the time”,it is “disheartening - Speech Link
2: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) the Commons and was interested in penal reform. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) integrity and basic security in the system is vital. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) The prison system is now in a parlous state after years of neglect. - Speech Link
5: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) the system running day in, day out. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 09 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) confidence in the criminal justice system, surely consistency must be at the heart of that ambition. - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) The courts system is starved, and the result of that is victims suffering in a whole host of other cases - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) But we know the court system is under real pressure, and I say to the Minister that I recognise, in the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) The fact that we are laying amendments demonstrates that there are failures in the system. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) of the measures in the Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None in the criminal system into the welfare system. - Speech Link
2: None Last month, a number of noble Lords in the Committee heard from some of the brave women from the campaign - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) , of the way in which the system is operating.On what the noble Baroness has said, I have looked at these - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) This is surely preferable to having the whole system working on the side and in the dark.The noble Baroness - Speech Link
5: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) The report suggests that the system today is not operating in the way that we would ideally like. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukraine - Wed 14 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) security—in the future. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) The threat is especially acute in the eastern flank, for countries such as Moldova, and in the Black - Speech Link
3: Johanna Baxter (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) the education system. - Speech Link
4: Martin Wrigley (LD - Newton Abbot) not recognised by the school in the UK. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) rebuild public confidence in the justice system. - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) served in shops by graduates of the Timpson in-house system in prisons. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) In no small part, this has led to the current crisis in our criminal justice system, let alone in the - Speech Link
4: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) public confidence in the justice system. - Speech Link
5: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) public confidence in the justice system. - Speech Link
6: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) Many of the arguments made in Committee about transparency in the justice system continue to hold true - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) assurances given around investment in the system and the improvements to the processes, which are very - Speech Link
2: None of the system that will be brought in to replace OASys, and the sooner the better. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the system while the necessary training is put in place. - Speech Link
4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) safely managed in the community and the need to achieve a sustainable prison system. - Speech Link
5: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) What is that going to do for public confidence in the justice system? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 12 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) It is very important that, given the backlog in the system, not just those who have DoLS but those who - Speech Link
2: None in any system that might be in place for their patients who live just across the River Tweed. - Speech Link
3: Lord Rook (Lab - Life peer) person has not merely appeared in the system at a moment of crisis. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Berger (Lab - Life peer) The figures have been updated; currently, one in four women experiences a mental health condition in - Speech Link
5: Lord Mackinlay of Richborough (Con - Life peer) The royal colleges are against this whole system, yet we will be relying on them to fill in the gaps - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2025 - Thu 04 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Barber of Ainsdale (Lab - Life peer) prison service on the point of collapse, the courts system in disarray, and wages stagnant right across - Speech Link
2: Lord Saatchi (Con - Life peer) systemthe sun, stars, moon and planets all in their proper place. - Speech Link
3: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) in the House.My conclusion was simple: we need to revisit the system and introduce new bandings. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) on the system that must administer it.Amendments 93, 93D and 93E in this group address the issue of - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) plan are in that group because they have ceased to engage with the system. - Speech Link
3: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) This, again, points to the need for clarity, confidence and, indeed, proportionality in the present system - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) We heard yesterday in the discussion on restricting jury trials about defendants gaming the system, with - Speech Link
5: Lord Bach (Lab - Life peer) has been, is that for the prison system to function in the near future, it is necessary to ensure that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) women, particularly, who have been trafficked, we know that the section—I forget the number—in the Modern - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) the system and be misused by, in my opinion, activist judges to prevent the deportation of people who - Speech Link
3: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) Devolving parts of the criminal justice system in this way would create a divergence between the management - Speech Link
4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) parliamentary Questions and Select Committee inquiries.Reforming the way women are treated in the criminal - Speech Link