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

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Unlike the prison officers, neither private security staff nor receiving court staff are equipped with - Speech Link
2: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) I am not wedded to the sentence being five or six years in prison, or to the amount of the fine; we can - Speech Link
3: None I pay tribute to our prison staff, who take risks every day in prisons. - Speech Link
4: None Staff do not have the same defensive and protective arrangements that they would have in a prison. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) result of the record amount of investment in prisons, we brought on HMP Fosse Way, and we have HMP Five - Speech Link
2: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) It is now five years since my constituent, Ellie Gould, was brutally murdered in her own home. - Speech Link
3: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) The staff try their best but lack experience. - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) both staff and the prison to make progress following that urgent notification. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
End of Custody Supervised Licence Scheme: Extension - Mon 13 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) This means ensuring that no prison exceeds a safe maximum operating limit. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) Government’s narrative was that this would relieve increasing pressure on prisons and allow probation staff - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) There are far too many people in prison far too long. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) Constructions of new houseblocks at four prisons are going on; we have opened HMP Fosse Way and HMP Five - Speech Link


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