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Lords Chamber
Rule of Law - Tue 26 Nov 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Cluny (Lab - Life peer) Government immediately and enthusiastically supported my request to undertake the role primarily from Edinburgh - Speech Link
2: Baroness Laing of Elderslie (Con - Life peer) at a young woman who wanted to be taken seriously in politics, but the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh - Speech Link
3: Lord Macdonald of River Glaven (XB - Life peer) It is important to note that the bulk of the new money, £2.3 billion, will go on prison expansion and - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) trust in policing on our streets and in our communities, in our criminal justice system and in our prison - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 30 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) During the passage of the Coronavirus Act 2020 it was perfectly reasonable to have Henry VIII powers. - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) That must be right and I accept that.I have said in response to the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) and to have listened to the very learned submissions from - Speech Link
4: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) That point has been made throughout the debate by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh - Speech Link
5: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) They refused to acknowledge the point of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) We did not see the EU as a prison to leave or as undemocratic. - Speech Link
2: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) Speaker, that that was the day that we gave the Government all sorts of powers under the emergency Coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) We have a Parliament in Edinburgh that we are proud of. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Security Bill
Committee stage - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) informed the British and he was arrested, convicted, given a 12-month sentence and served six months in prison - Speech Link
2: None Why a metro mayor in England is included but not the leader of city councils in Glasgow or Edinburgh - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) I agree that where an event such as a coronavirus pandemic arises, it is imperative that the sharing - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) because they are susceptible to foreign influence seems a bit odd when the leader of the council in Edinburgh - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) They are free to give a Government in Edinburgh a mandate, as they did in 2011, to ask that question - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) That candidate was then elected, and he is now in prison for sexual crimes. This is deeply serious. - Speech Link
3: Andy Carter (CON - Warrington South) Member for Edinburgh East (Tommy Sheppard) talked about Tory hooliganism. - Speech Link
4: Mark Eastwood (CON - Dewsbury) The Government introduced the coronavirus job retention scheme that saved so many jobs by supporting - Speech Link
5: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) Anoosheh Ashoori, my constituent, spent four years in prison in Iran. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Assisted Dying - Mon 04 Jul 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) Let’s try to find a way of ending pain.”When we were faced with the coronavirus, did our Government give - Speech Link
2: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) ending their own lives every year, and almost half of people saying they would break the law and risk prison - Speech Link
3: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine), in one of my first contributions in this place. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting) - Thu 09 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) a lot more peaceful protesters in prison. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) Instead of those people potentially going to prison for a bit, or not going to prison at all, they will - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) What do you mean by saying the Bill will end up putting people in prison? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) a lot more peaceful protesters in prison. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) Instead of those people potentially going to prison for a bit, or not going to prison at all, they will - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) What do you mean by saying the Bill will end up putting people in prison? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Procurement Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Wed 25 May 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (CB - Life peer) procurement and to deal with some of the lessons, both positive and negative, that have arisen during the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) I would like to ask the Minister: if the new HS2 trains that are going to run to Glasgow and Edinburgh - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) put out by G4S said that“no specific previous qualifications or experience”were required to be a prison - Speech Link
4: Lord True (CON - Life peer) contract can be delivered in such a way that it delivers additional outcomes, such as upskilling prison - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Duffield (LAB - Canterbury) will not be tolerated and that nothing at all awaits them if they hurt or kill women apart from a prison - Speech Link
2: Kate Osborne (LAB - Jarrow) Ninety years later, throughout the coronavirus pandemic, when I look at the livelihoods of some in my - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) We have seen study after study that has shown that prison is not the best place for women offenders, - Speech Link
4: Laura Trott (CON - Sevenoaks) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry), and - Speech Link