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Lords Chamber
Advertising of Prostitution (Prohibition) Bill [HL] - Fri 23 Oct 2015
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) I have a vivid recollection of going to a Romanian prison where I met a number of traffickers who were - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Stamford (LAB - Life peer) would suffer criminal sanctions as a result of the Bill becoming law, if it ever did, would be the females - Speech Link
3: Lord Bates (CON - Life peer) On this point, the noble and learned Baroness spoke of the people she visited in a prison setting in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 02 Jul 2015
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Caroline Dinenage (CON - Gosport) It has long been the case that women are not required to wear prison-issue clothing. - Speech Link
2: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) Female prisoners do not currently have to wear prison uniforms because it might affect their self-esteem - Speech Link
3: Caroline Dinenage (CON - Gosport) The fact is that 95% of prisoners are men, and our entire prison system is largely designed with them - Speech Link
4: Caroline Dinenage (CON - Gosport) without a reasonable excuse, the court has the power to deal with it, including by imposing community sentences - Speech Link
5: Maggie Throup (CON - Erewash) Government taking to ensure that we continue to attract talented young women to STEM professions, and that females - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Serious Crime Bill [Lords] - Mon 05 Jan 2015
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) The Home Secretary said something interesting about default sentences a few minutes ago. - Speech Link
2: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) The use of unauthorised mobile phones in prison poses a significant threat to prison security, as well - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) The school leaving age at that time was 14, and in 1931, 88.5% of males and 75.6% of females aged 16 - Speech Link
4: David Burrowes (CON - Enfield, Southgate) , which has the proper aim of preventing defendants from choosing to serve prison sentences rather than - Speech Link
5: Karen Bradley (CON - Staffordshire Moorlands) sentences for failing to pay confiscation orders. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Historical Child Sex Abuse - Thu 27 Nov 2014
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Simon Danczuk (IND - Rochdale) He attacked one of his abusers and ended up going to prison. - Speech Link
2: Paul Beresford (CON - Mole Valley) In those days it was hard to prosecute female abusers because juries would not believe that females were - Speech Link
3: Paul Beresford (CON - Mole Valley) , what we need is an inquiry—conducted by the Attorney-General rather than the Home Office—into the sentences - Speech Link
4: Paul Beresford (CON - Mole Valley) They are used in the Prison Service, for instance, and in a world-famous organisation called the Lucy - Speech Link
5: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) The couple were fined and given suspended sentences for running a disorderly house, but at the time there - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Women: Custodial Sentences - Thu 26 Jun 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill (LAB - Life peer) In 2013, more females were received into prison under an immediate custodial sentence for theft and handling - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) As the noble Baroness pointed out, most of the women held in prison are serving short sentences or are - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Mon 12 May 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) This is a multiple armed robber who was serving 13 life sentences and had absconded from prison before—twice - Speech Link
2: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) If people serving indeterminate sentences for public protection were fit to be released from prison, - Speech Link
3: Dan Jarvis (LAB - Barnsley Central) Justice Committee:“I would want to advise the Secretary of State to think very hard about whether young females - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Mon 24 Feb 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) At Peterborough prison, a women’s prison and a male prison adjoin and share many of the same facilities - Speech Link
2: Sadiq Khan (LAB - Tooting) We therefore have clause 3 and schedule 15 eligibility for life sentences and extended determinant sentences - Speech Link
3: Sadiq Khan (LAB - Tooting) Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green), what provision is planned for young females - Speech Link
4: Elfyn Llwyd (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) After all, the Government of the time underestimated the impact that IPP sentences—indeterminate sentences - Speech Link
5: Keith Vaz (LAB - Leicester East) That is why we suggest there should be mandatory testing in prison and after people leave prison. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Women Offenders and Older Prisoners - Thu 16 Jan 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) They also included improvements to prison conditions, making community sentences the norm, and improvements - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) to community sentences. - Speech Link
3: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) detail of all these “poor women” who are serving prison sentences and who should—apparently—be out and - Speech Link
4: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) According to the prison population figures, just under 16% of women in prison have sentences of less - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Mon 08 Jul 2013
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) I thought I would read noble Lords one of his sentences, slightly paraphrasing. - Speech Link
2: Lord Elystan-Morgan (CB - Life peer) the accountant, the solicitor and many similar people of high standing in society, all being sent to prison - Speech Link
3: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) will take a job in which they recognise that they will marry everybody, whether that is two males, two females - Speech Link
4: Lord Deben (CON - Life peer) not agree, so it is perfectly proper to insist that they should use their technical ability to impose sentences - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Offender Rehabilitation Bill [HL] - Tue 11 Jun 2013
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Dholakia (LDEM - Life peer) We should do this by avoiding the unintended increase in prison sentences. - Speech Link
2: Lord McNally (LDEM - Life peer) as somehow softer than prison sentences. - Speech Link
3: Lord McNally (LDEM - Life peer) and suspended sentences. - Speech Link
4: None Anyone who goes around a prison knows what a difficult job we ask our prison officers to do. - Speech Link
5: Lord Woolf (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) the purposes of the Bill with regard to avoiding reoffending.There will always be a greater risk of females - Speech Link