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Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) There are five different aspects to this. The first is knife crime. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bray of Coln (Con - Life peer) staff to bring them to the courtroom. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) from people opposing the felling of trees in Sheffield to the rural campaigners who stopped fracking wells - Speech Link
4: Lord Macdonald of River Glaven (XB - Life peer) This policy will make the already difficult task of prison staff harder and more dangerous still. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prison Capacity - Tue 17 Oct 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) the Probation Service—a Probation Service into which we have injected £155 million a year to recruit staff - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) HMP Five Wells came on stream last year, and a second new prison is expected to come on stream relatively - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) To answer the specific questions, I say that Five Wells is open, Fosse Way has recently been opened, - Speech Link
4: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) Is the Minister aware of the very serious problems concerning the recruitment and retention of staff - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prison Capacity - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) It was a tough call, but it was manifestly the right one.Lest we forget, Five Wells and Fosse Way have - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) The statement mentioned probation, but there was no mention of prison staff. - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) We are increasing the number of prison staff, and I think an additional 700 staff were recruited in the - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) I completely agree with the Lord Chancellor’s last point about prison staff during the covid pandemic - Speech Link
5: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) I went to Berwyn, and she is right that we always want to recruit more prison staff, but let us pause - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
HMPPS Update - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) The prison was put into a state of lockdown while staff attempted to determine Daniel Khalife’s whereabouts - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (LAB - Birmingham, Ladywood) Will his investigations assess the quality of the training and the experience of prison staff at HMP - Speech Link
3: Rosena Allin-Khan (LAB - Tooting) Will he also tell us the average number of staff per shift at Wandsworth prison and the number of staff - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) I have been to HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way. Millsike is under construction. - Speech Link
5: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) I visited Wandsworth Prison in June, and as I arrived, six members of staff were being taken to A& - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) to 42 high-risk prison sites that routinely search staff and visitors. - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) Those who have been to Five Wells and Fosse Way recognise what an advance they are in design and facilities - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) staff bodies throughout the Prison and Probation Service. - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) who would otherwise have been homeless across the initial five regions. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) I invite her to go and look at Five Wells or Fosse Way, or at the work taking place at Millsike. - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) In the five months to the end of May, Albanian small boat arrivals were down by 90% on last year, and - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) One in five magistrates courts do not have level access. - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) As it happens, this evening is His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service staff awards, which I am looking - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Change of Name by Registered Sex Offenders - Thu 02 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None recall, Ian Huntley was convicted of the terrible murders of two little girls, Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells - Speech Link
2: Mark Fletcher (CON - Bolsover) disagreement about how to solve the matter, and I will touch on that.I should also say thank you to the staff - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) Five women in six do not report their rape to the police. - Speech Link
4: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West and others about the murders of Holly Wells - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts Council England: Regional Distribution of Funding - Thu 15 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) It travels to Addenbrooke’s to play music to patients, and it travels to His Majesty’s Prison Whitemoor - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) When King Charles was Prince of Wales, for about five or six years he awarded a medal every year to five - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) with audiences, staff and its new venue home, but there has been no consultation in this instance. - Speech Link
4: Lord Freyberg (CB - Excepted Hereditary) the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, rightly mentioned, when the Birmingham Royal Ballet moved from Sadler’s Wells - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Southeastern Railway Timetable Changes - Tue 06 Dec 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (CON - Bexleyheath and Crayford) The staff and the ambience at Charing Cross is very good, commensurate with safety and security, and - Speech Link
2: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) Friends.The changes will be implemented in just five days’ time. - Speech Link
3: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) One constituent, who works in the local prison service, told me that she is incredibly distressed, because - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) Tunbridge Wells and Hastings services will see journey time improvements in the morning peak, and there - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prison Capacity - Tue 06 Dec 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None Morton Hall and our brand-new prison, HMP Five Wells. - Speech Link
2: None In conclusion, I thank the police for their support and pay tribute to the front-line prison staff and - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) Staff under excessive pressure are more risk averse and therefore more likely to recall offenders to - Speech Link
4: Lord Watts (LAB - Life peer) What are the Minister and the Government going to do to staff up our prisons so that they can use the - Speech Link