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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) amendments to the Online Safety Bill, followed by a debate on a motion to approve the draft Misuse of Drugs - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) While schools, local councils, hospitals and prisons are crumbling due to a lack of funding, does the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
HMPPS Update - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) measures, such as enhanced gate security with X-ray body scanners, which has driven up the finds of drugs - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) A huge amount of investment is going into our prisons and I have seen what that can do. - Speech Link
3: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) The excellent men and women who work in our prisons are under tremendous stress. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Public Safety Updates - Thu 20 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) plan—First Annual ReportIn December 2021 we published our landmark cross-Government drugs strategy, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prison: Support for Dependent Children - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) Education’s terrific family hubs team working with the Prison Service to encourage this innovation in other prisons - Speech Link
2: Lord Selkirk of Douglas (CON - Life peer) Minister accept that in some places in the United Kingdom where there have been a lot of problems, drugs - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ethnic Minority and Migrant Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) If we look at county lines, we know that many gangs use young women to transport drugs up and down the - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) We know the data.Unfortunately, the Government have a policy of building new women’s prisons, which they - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dines (CON - Derbyshire Dales) On the drugs strategy and county lines, on 6 December 2021, the Government published a 10-year drugs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) Well, how long do we expect to keep those prisons open? - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) Prisoners are released more criminalised, more traumatised, more addicted to drugs than when they arrived - Speech Link
3: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) They explained that come the afternoon the smell of drugs in the wing is overwhelming, as prisoners use - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) , including stemming the flow of illicit items such as drugs, mobile phones and weapons, was completed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK: Violence Against Women and Girls - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) gender identity on pain of being accused of transphobic misgendering.Kate Coleman, author of the Keep Prisons - Speech Link
2: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) the Minister might be prepared to comment on how the Government feel about the impact of alcohol and drugs - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) It is also important that any alcohol or drugs treatment plan for perpetrators, as well as addressing - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) is already captured by a number of criminal offences under the Serious Crime Act 2007, the Misuse of Drugs - Speech Link
2: None A month before, he had told Katie’s mother that he would kill her daughter with drugs before killing - Speech Link
3: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) I have been invited to witness such sessions happening in prisons, and some amazing work is going on. - Speech Link
4: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) Restorative justice is effective in prisons, courts and education, but would he agree that if it is to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) Those are modern, safe, rehabilitative, productive prisons. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) meeting anybody from Anyone’s Child to hear their case for supporting, not punishing, those who take drugs - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) Sharlotte-Sky, who tragically lost her life in Norton Green due to John Owen, who was on drink and drugs - Speech Link
4: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) One particular challenge, though, is the prevalence of psychoactive drugs such as spice. - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) He is right to identify the issue with keeping drugs out of prisons. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023 - Mon 26 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (CON - Life peer) It goes without saying and is axiomatic that drugs have a huge negative impact on our communities.I shall - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) offenders, who would applaud an offender who had got a clean bill of health, because he was clean of drugs - Speech Link