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Public Bill Committees
Prisons (Substance Testing) Bill - Wed 02 Dec 2020
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) prisons is rife, and we are told that it fuels violence and health problems and remains a real barrier to rehabilitation - Speech Link
2: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) I entirely agree that rehabilitation is the right way to proceed but, equally, nothing must be done to - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) from the general population.Most of these deaths after leaving prison are the result of opiate use—heroin - Speech Link
4: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) these proceedings.Having the privilege of being the Minister responsible for prisons, probation and rehabilitation - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 5th sitting (Hansard) - Wed 11 Nov 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) and efficiently as possible to the post-Covid-19 surge in demand on health services, including the rehabilitation - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) Orthoptics has seen its roles expand in stroke management and neuro-rehabilitation and neuro-ophthalmology - Speech Link
3: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) obstetrician, I have spent most of my life treating the symptoms of pain, prescribing morphine and heroin - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Huawei and 5G - Wed 04 Mar 2020
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) this Huawei process, and we need to break it free; it is like getting somebody free of an addiction to heroin - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Policing (England and Wales) - Mon 24 Feb 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) some of our young people have become resigned to a life of zero-hours contracts, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation - Speech Link
2: Julie Marson (CON - Hertford and Stortford) He was grey and haggard, as he had regularly been given heroin by his parents to keep him quiet at night - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) as a magistrate and, in particular, of a poor young, emaciated, grey boy who had been injected with heroin - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Homelessness - Wed 29 Jan 2020
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Adam Holloway (CON - Gravesham) I did not meet him, but a friend of mine reported that a guy who had been a heroin addict in Covent Garden - Speech Link
2: Adam Holloway (CON - Gravesham) There needs to be drug rehabilitation when people need it and when they are ready for it. - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) He had been living rough for a little while, and the inquest found he died of a heroin overdose after - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 08 Jan 2020
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) Ensuring that prisoners make proper progress and rehabilitation is a good aim, and if certain facts that - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) have shown incontrovertibly that relationships, the golden thread that must run through the prison rehabilitation - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) I met prison staff, be they governors, prison officers, teachers, drug rehabilitation and addiction experts - Speech Link
4: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (CB - Life peer) How will that enhance his rehabilitation so that he becomes a man of usefulness to society? - Speech Link
5: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) that almost 100 children are at risk of being exploited by county lines gangs and £50,000 is spent on heroin - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Drug Treatment Services - Tue 16 Jul 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dan Poulter (CON - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) Heroin deaths are on the rise; the number of people presenting with alcohol-related illness, pathology - Speech Link
2: Paul Sweeney (LAB - Glasgow North East) they have cut victim services in Glasgow by over a quarter in recent years, causing the closure of rehabilitation - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) That medical heroin-assisted treatment programme is limited in size, scope and scale, because it is a - Speech Link
4: Julie Cooper (LAB - Burnley) Heroin-assisted treatment allows for the provision of pharmacological heroin to dependent individuals - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Knife Crime - Thu 27 Jun 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Dholakia (LDEM - Life peer) They are not long enough for any sustained attempt at rehabilitation in custody, as they do not provide - Speech Link
2: Lord Hogan-Howe (CB - Life peer) How much is getting stopped and seized, with people being arrested and put in prison for 80 kilos of heroin - Speech Link
3: Lord McNally (LDEM - Life peer) intention to move from what we have now, which are in fact child prisons, to places of more constructive rehabilitation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Medical Cannabis under Prescription - Mon 20 May 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Charlie Elphicke (IND - Dover) Does he agree that the absurdity lying at the heart of it is that heroin is legally prescribed as morphine - Speech Link
2: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) money had come from, but my understanding is that it actually came from a business associated with the rehabilitation - Speech Link
3: Julie Cooper (LAB - Burnley) act to help those who could be helped.Other powerful drugs with significant street values, such as heroin - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Knife Crime - Mon 25 Mar 2019
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) As the Minister also knows, conditions in prisons do not lend themselves to positive rehabilitation. - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) Friend’s excellent speech, but I would have thought that part of the problem with rehabilitation is the - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) Does he agree that the current approach to drug rehabilitation services in prison is not robust enough - Speech Link
4: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) Of those offenders, 76% are crack cocaine or heroin addicts. - Speech Link