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Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Report stage - Wed 10 Mar 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Around 6% have a drug use need and around 40% a mental health problem. - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LDEM - Life peer) their patients or clients—in reality, their victims—a misplaced trust in them and engineer a false dependence - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) controlling or coercive behaviour offence because therapists are abusing their position of trust and the dependence - Speech Link
4: None specified in subsection (2A)(a) is to be taken as satisfied unless, not later than such time as may be prescribed - Speech Link
5: None specified in subsection (1A)(b) is to be taken as satisfied unless, not later than such time as may be prescribed - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Richard Holden (CON - North West Durham) minor and technical amendment, specifically in reference to scopolamine.Scopolamine was added to the prescribed - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) The whole system at the moment seems to be geared to discovering who has a pre-existing dependence on - Speech Link
3: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) pleased to say that 27% of those who were discharged after completing their treatment were free of dependence - Speech Link
4: None As we have heard, the Bill extends the testing regime to cover prescribed and pharmacy medicines that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prisons (Substance Testing) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 16 Oct 2020
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) Drug dependence and abuse is a massive factor in many people’s offending and, indeed, reoffending. - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) The Bill extends the testing regime to cover prescribed and pharmacy medicines, many of which can be - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) having a drug addiction. - Speech Link
4: Jane Stevenson (CON - Wolverhampton North East) enhance drug testing and bring down levels of drug use. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 01 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) women across the developing world because Roche holds multiple patents on the drug in South Africa, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) internationally, particularly in developing countries where basic medicines may not be affordable and dependence - Speech Link
3: Lord Judd (LAB - Life peer) He said, “Please write down on one piece of paper the last drug that you prescribed for a patient. - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) rights, will we ensure that exhaustion continues to be a sovereign issue for the UK, that it is not prescribed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade Bill
Report stage - Mon 20 Jul 2020
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) He said:“It would lock us and the”—devolved Administrations—“into prescribed ways of working under the - Speech Link
2: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) probing the UK’s “health insurance system”, and the US has made clear its desire for the UK to change its drug - Speech Link
3: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) thing for trade around the world.New clause 8 would also instruct that there should be no changes to drug - Speech Link
4: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) devolved Administrations play a key role in any future trade policy, and that given Northern Ireland’s dependence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Drugs: Methadone - Mon 28 Oct 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (CON - Life peer) The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published several pieces of guidance on drug - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (CON - Life peer) However, we recognise the challenge of drug deaths and drug treatment across the UK and the challenge - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Patients who need it for symptom control can worry that they are stigmatised by being prescribed methadone - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (CON - Life peer) It is provided for by NICE guidance and UK drug misuse and dependence treatment guidelines. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (CON - Life peer) use, and why Dame Carol Black is working on the association between drug use and violence. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) reduce” the social costs associated with drug misuse and dependence, with an estimated cost-benefit - Speech Link
2: Mary Glindon (LAB - North Tyneside) We call on Government to ensure that substance misuse treatment is a prescribed local public health activity - Speech Link
3: Paul Sweeney (LAB - Glasgow North East) consumption room—pharmaceutical diamorphine and cocaine can be prescribed freely for use in a supervised - Speech Link
4: Julie Cooper (LAB - Burnley) in the number of drug-related deaths and even in the number of drug users. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) He had been born with cystic fibrosis and told me what a transformative effect the drug had had on him - Speech Link
2: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) It concerns a different drug from the one in the question, but it is also a very important consideration - Speech Link
3: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) Of course GPs have a role to play in that, and the number of antibiotics prescribed by GPs has fallen - Speech Link
4: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) Public Health England is reviewing prescription drug dependence, including opioid dependence, and we - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Offensive Weapons Bill
Committee: 1st sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) We have already prescribed a tight set of conditions on remote sellers if they want to rely on the defence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) On the second point, “supply” has all sorts of other connotations, particularly with the drug trade. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) I believe huge proportions of these young people have drug problems. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Drugs Policy - Tue 23 Oct 2018
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) Anthony Eden was prescribed purple hearts throughout the Suez crisis. - Speech Link
2: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) dependence.”Fifteen months later, there is still nobody in the role, so nobody is co-ordinating those - Speech Link
3: Dan Poulter (CON - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) dependence receiving the care and support that they need. - Speech Link
4: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) linked such facilities to fewer emergency service call-outs, an increased uptake of detoxification and drug-dependence - Speech Link
5: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) They are prescribed diamorphine as part of an intensive programme of action. - Speech Link