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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) The Victims and Prisoners Bill is languishing in the Lords. - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) that the UK Government’s three-year freeze on local housing allowance is one of the biggest drivers of homelessness - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) to get a job on release, thus reducing the likelihood of reoffending. - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, there is a solemn duty on prison governors to prepare ex-offenders - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) out the steps prisons and probation services must take to meet their duty to refer those at risk of homelessness - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None among underserved communities such as individuals in commercial sex, adults and children experiencing homelessness - Speech Link
2: None Just last month, Human Rights Watch, in an article, called for the release of a journalist and for the - Speech Link
3: None So we’ll disapply the UK Human Rights Act, for example, in relation to prisoners in the Victims and Prisoners - Speech Link
4: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) We saw that in the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and we see it in the Victims and Prisoners Bill. - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) It is operated on a private sector contract and the Government say that they will not release information - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) are“by any measure, the most effective services for victims”,—[Official Report, Commons, Victims and Prisoners - Speech Link
2: None We also need to ensure that the post-parole and release system knows and understands how to handle stalkers - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Women and their children are vulnerable to homelessness and exploitation and can be locked in new, dangerous - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) I gently remind him that in the costings for this Bill we were reminded that Part 4, on prisoners, will - Speech Link
2: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) That will, I hope, assist them both—the perpetrator in her release and her future—and give some consolation - Speech Link
3: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) We cannot waste the opportunity of this Victims and Prisoners Bill and let the thought remain that support - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) of harm and other risks later in life, including going missing from home, alcohol and drug misuse, homelessness - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) This will soon become a critical issue, potentially resulting in homelessness. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Oxford and Asquith (XB - Excepted Hereditary) a key element of its general anti-Russian strategy.Russian prison guards now say to their Ukrainian prisoners - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We are hearing concerns about increased homelessness among Ukrainian refugees. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) This will release €2.3 billion, which it will use as part of the funds to support the Ukrainian people - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) been very significant in strengthening the rights of those who, for various reasons such as poverty, homelessness - Speech Link
2: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) While that would not necessarily have resulted in the earlier release of prisoners who were obviously - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) So we are still working towards the release of these prisoners when it is safe to do so. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) my real concern within this is that, especially as budgets get tighter and tighter, the duty around homelessness - Speech Link
2: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) earlier, there is a real danger, if it is seen that the police have the power to do something about homelessness - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) That is why the Government introduced an earlier release scheme to relieve some of the pressure. - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Your members play an important role in through-the-gate services, helping prisoners prepare for release - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Finally, do we need to add any new measures to better manage terrorist offenders on release? - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Q Have you done any work on homelessness and people on the streets—aggressive beggars and things of - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) The defendant can of course secure release from the default term by paying the confiscation debt. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prisons in Wales - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) longer for black defendants than for those from a white ethnic group.The link between incarceration and homelessness - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) Regarding the release of people from prison, the prison date is well known. - Speech Link
3: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) between their release from a Welsh prison and the question of homelessness, let alone the homelessness - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) Prisoners from England serve in Wales and, on occasion, prisoners from Wales serve in England. - Speech Link