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

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) Act 1990—“(1) The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is amended as follows.(2) In section 1, after subsection - Speech Link
2: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) Still others were under the influence of drink and drugs. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) In the year ending March 2023, there were 19.7% fewer incidents where drugs were found than in the year - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) In terms of tackling drugs, in Parc we have X-ray body scanners and the Rapiscan system, and we have - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Friend the Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran) would end the misuse of NDAs in the workplace - Speech Link
4: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) show of violence and overcrowding in filthy environments, with horrendous levels of self-harm and drug misuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Parc Prison - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) However, four have so far been linked to substance misuse, with another potentially so. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) Prison staff are being targeted to smuggle drugs into our prisons. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) operational response plan; I will not go into detail but it is supported by the national substance misuse - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Parc Prison - Mon 13 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) note that these deaths are not all drug-related, However, four have so far been linked to substance misuse - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Drugs are fuelling the violence that we see in our prisons. - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) Some parents, including that constituent, have raised concerns over a long period about drugs. - Speech Link


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