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Westminster Hall
Liver Disease and Liver Cancer - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) While alcohol misuse is not the only cause of liver disease, it is, as we have heard, responsible for - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It often comes from the association of liver disease with alcohol misuse and viral hepatitis. - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) That is why, in December 2021, we published our drugs strategy, which does three things. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children and Young People: Local Authority Care - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Very often that involves mothers who have used drugs during pregnancy; there is nothing more distressing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (XB - Life peer) Some 33% of parents have ceased to misuse drugs and alcohol versus only 8% in standard care proceedings - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) They raise very serious questions about the misuse of funds and the pressure put on others to facilitate - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) which is a much appreciated and convenient scheme that enables people to access certain prescription drugs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19: Response and Excess Deaths - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) and morphine to people dying of cancer is reasonable, but there is a side effect, which is that those drugs - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) If the drugs are potentially significantly harmful to a large number of patients, those drugs do not - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) public, and the whole purpose is scientific interrogation and analysis, it should not be possible to misuse - Speech Link
4: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) The efficacy of drugs needs to be reviewed over periods of time, and the science needs to be fully understood - Speech Link
5: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) Evusheld 2, and I very much support the right of clinically vulnerable communities to access those drugs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cass Review - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, my focus is on the misuse of drugs for unlicensed purposes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Friend suggesting that we repeal the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, under which cannabis is prohibited? - Speech Link
2: Elizabeth Truss (Con - South West Norfolk) I certainly do not support the liberalisation of those drugs. - Speech Link
3: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) Friend says that drugs destroy lives, but tobacco does not. - Speech Link
4: Simon Clarke (Con - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) Friend, I said that those drugs destroy communities. There is a profound difference. - Speech Link
5: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) I understand banning drugs. I understand banning drinking and driving. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) Because the cities and big towns are inundated with drugs, they carry them, for money, to small towns - Speech Link
2: None with children in these circumstances are committing offences—probably under the Serious Crime Act, the Misuse - Speech Link
3: None of child criminal exploitation; the data is collected under the particular offences, whether that be misuse - Speech Link
4: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) The amendment would therefore also help to reduce the misuse of police and CPS power.I thank the Minister - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Derek Twigg (Lab - Halton) Secretary of State will know that one of the ways to reduce reoffending is to break the cycle of drug misuse - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Member is right: it is of course really important that we tackle drugs coming into prisons. - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) We have the £100 million security measures to tackle illicit drugs and mobile phones—the sorts of things - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sport: Gambling Advertising - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Yet I believe we have a responsibility to raise awareness of the dangers of gambling that come with misuse - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) risk-taking activities, with 20% vaping, 9% having smoked a cigarette, and 8% having taken illegal drugs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) pharmaceutical, clinical and other medical research, and we have asked the Advisory Council on the Misuse - Speech Link