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

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) has been allocated, and we have opened His Majesty’s Prison Fosse Way and HMP Five Wells. - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) All assaults on prison staff are utterly unacceptable. - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) We have opened Five Wells and Fosse Way, and Millsike is under construction. - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Let me set out what we have done in respect of prison and probation staff. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None That will allow front-line staff to maximise supervision of the most serious offenders. - Speech Link
2: None for the efforts of all those working in the criminal justice system: prisons, probation and courts staff - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) — more than double the 400 new staff announced.I turn to the extra spending the Government have announced - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) with staff and other prisoners. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day: Language in Politics - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Carolyn Harris (Lab - Swansea East) these blue hair fat ugly freaks.”And another:“Shouldn’t this buffoon be serving jelly and custard to five - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (Lab - Swansea East) That is the reality for women in prison. - Speech Link
3: Katherine Fletcher (Con - South Ribble) Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark), the Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bragg (Lab - Life peer) Consequently, staff numbers in music and other arts have dropped dramatically. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hooper (Con - Life peer) Royal Ballet School at the ripe old age of 10, so long ago that it was still known as the Sadler’s Wells - Speech Link
3: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) I have witnessed at first hand the impact of drama and art within the prison system in opening up minds - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) Why can this not apply to UK staff who are employed in the UK but work in other countries? - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) According to the DCMS’s participation survey, more than four in five adults engaged with the arts in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Should the judge have sentenced her immediately to three years’ custody—it would have been at least five - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) for our prison staff to work with them to tackle their addictions, improve their employability, manage - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Ladywood) Workloads are soaring, almost 50,000 working days among probation staff have been lost due to stress - Speech Link
4: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) Probation staff do an outstanding job, as I have seen for myself on many occasions. - Speech Link
5: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way have opened in the last two years. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) the inquiry into the depraved acts of David Fuller in the mortuaries of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells - Speech Link
2: Caroline Ansell (Con - Eastbourne) Figures from Sussex police reflect that: in the past five years, there has been a tenfold increase in - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) staff now wear cameras to try to record video evidence. - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) We raised the matter five years ago, when the Take Five campaign was run by the National Crime Agency - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Greg Clark (Con - Tunbridge Wells) women, abused the corpses of over 100 women and girls in the mortuaries of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Up to 25% of criminal barristers have left the profession over the past five years, so what action are - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) Since last year, assaults on staff have increased by 33%. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Owing to the excessive workload, staff are leaving in droves. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) in this House, but we were not strong enough to stop the Government lifting the ban on using agency staff - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) I thank noble Lords for their welcome, and the staff for their kindness and guidance. - Speech Link
3: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) arguing that countries much poorer than us should not increase their dependence and open mines and oil wells - Speech Link
4: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) the rather crazy idea that we need tougher sentences for serious offenders when we have a record high prison - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Chris Skidmore (Con - Kingswood) Would five minutes be okay?” - Speech Link
2: David Duguid (Con - Banff and Buchan) only should we not award any new production licences, but we should simply keep producing from the wells - Speech Link
3: Colleen Fletcher (Lab - Coventry North East) All of that adds to the growing pressure on services.The staff I spoke with would like to see investment - Speech Link
4: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) I hope the Government will focus on delivering the prison places we need for that commitment to be worth - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) sentences, but she was right to ask how that is consistent with the Government not having sufficient prison - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pakistan: Evacuation of Afghans - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Johnny Mercer (Con - Plymouth, Moor View) Friend the Member for Wells (James Heappey), for his work on that. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) I have not had those answers from the Minister.One constituent contacted me whose sister and her five - Speech Link
3: Johnny Mercer (Con - Plymouth, Moor View) be candid with the hon. and learned Member, I am happy for her to write to me about this case, but staff - Speech Link
4: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) eight years, a family member who is pregnant with two children, and a judge who has previously been in prison - Speech Link