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Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 12 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Rennard (LDEM - Life peer) ignored, while new barriers are being put in the way of the 2.2 million who do not have the government-prescribed - Speech Link
2: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) Justice Secretary will have the power to refuse release, subject to judicial challenge, on … clearly prescribed - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) updated and slimmed down Bill of Rights, but I welcome the move, which recognises the dangers of a dependence - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) They could have backed Labour’s plans to make it easier for police to close drug dens and introduce a - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Non-commissioned Exempt Accommodation - Wed 23 Feb 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Eddie Hughes (CON - Walsall North) The “more than minimal” line was not prescribed in law—to a degree, one might say that it is even worse - Speech Link
2: George Howarth (LAB - Knowsley) From my own city region and my own constituency, I know that a lot of drug money is being laundered into - Speech Link
3: Karen Buck (LAB - Westminster North) fleeing domestic violence, and people whose homelessness is made worse by factors such as substance dependence - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) to make a fresh start, those with severe mental health needs, those battling addiction and substance dependence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Committee stage - Fri 04 Feb 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) than they otherwise would, and early-age drinking is linked to higher risk drinking and even alcohol dependence - Speech Link
2: None The proposed approach is to prohibit prescribed HFSS food and drink advertising from 5.30 am to 9 pm, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) People who are trapped by alcohol dependence need help to move towards recovery. - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) developing comprehensive UK guidelines for the clinical management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Committee stage - Thu 20 Jan 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None Only 41% of patients who were prescribed anti- osteoporosis medication were monitored in the 12 to 16 - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) then to be prescribed, it must not only have been approved by NICE but go on to the approved list of - Speech Link
3: Lord Crisp (CB - Life peer) I co-chair the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pitkeathley (LAB - Life peer) It puts on bring and buy sales—all with people who, perhaps, in the past, might just have been prescribed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Nov 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on prescribed drug dependence, I pay tribute to Dr Anne - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Mon 15 Nov 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None locked up for longer than he would have been had he been sentenced to the “maximum determinate sentence” prescribed - Speech Link
2: Lord Dubs (LAB - Life peer) Community sentences include interventions such as drug, alcohol and mental health treatment. - Speech Link
3: None They essentially cover three areas: mental health, alcohol addiction and drug addiction. - Speech Link
4: None carers, parental prison leads to low educational achievement, truancy, mental health issues, alcohol dependence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Menopause (Support and Services) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 29 Oct 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) That means we are seeing women being prescribed antidepressants when hormone replacement therapy may - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) I chair the all-party parliamentary group on prescribed drug dependence. - Speech Link
3: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) Women are then prescribed HRT on an annual basis. - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) They set out the prescription charges payable per drug that is dispensed. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Oct 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jay of Paddington (LAB - Life peer) In it was a mixture of water, grape juice and a fatal dose of a medically prescribed drug … She was sitting - Speech Link
2: Baroness Murphy (CB - Life peer) Susceptible people usually have early dementia, a learning disability or, very rarely, an unusual lifelong dependence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stroud (CON - Life peer) principle that all people, regardless of what they can contribute and regardless of their level of need or dependence - Speech Link
4: Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In 1977, I was having a two-hour operation when the anaesthetic gradually failed, but the paralysing drug - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2021 - Wed 16 Jun 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) are also controlled under class C of the 1971 Act.Benzodiazepine medicines with specific uses may be prescribed - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) referred to it—“providing treatment solutions and referral pathways for people with benzodiazepine dependence - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2021 - Mon 17 May 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Crisp (CB - Life peer) Drug Dependence to draw attention to the scale and severity of this problem in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) and Withdrawal Associated With Some Prescribed Medicines: An Evidence Review. - Speech Link