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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) Ensuring our prisons are safe and secure for both staff and prisoners remains our top priority. - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) in our policy approach, which has seen £100 million-worth of investment into measures to tackle the smuggling - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Lady is right to say there are prisons where the standards are not where we want them to be. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Parc Prison - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) The Statement is as follows:“Ensuring that our prisons are safe and secure for both prisoners and staff - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) Prison staff are being targeted to smuggle drugs into our prisons. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Inadmissible Asylum Seekers - Thu 09 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) These facilities are subject to inspection by HMG’s Inspector of Prisons, accompanied by their French - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Labour … are not serious about stopping small boats, tackling criminality, protecting people from the smuggling - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Recognition of Western Sahara as Moroccan - Wed 08 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Many of those human rights activists face long sentences in Moroccan prisons and even degrading treatment - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) Morocco is a key partner in the interdiction of people smuggling, the prevention of illegal migration - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Nationality and Borders Act 2022, were arrested, charged and convicted as adults and ended up in adult prisons - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) remain focused on doing everything we can to save lives, deter illegal migration and disrupt the people-smuggling - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Media Access in Prisons - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Why am I here talking about social media in prisons? - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) of possessing a communications device in a prison without authorisation, while those who are caught smuggling - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) The use of social media in prisons is not acceptable, and this content was removed from the social media - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Gentleman for going to see the Scrubs with the Prisons Minister, my right hon. - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Ladywood) Is not about time that the Minister renamed the new prisons programme the no prisons programme? - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) that failed to be built, whereas we are committed to building six new modern prisons. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None assessment and I have seen shocking examples of those who are wrongly assessed being sent to adult prisons - Speech Link
2: None It points out that the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and the Chief Inspector of Prisons - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) increasing pressure from illegal migration and the Government must take action to undercut the routes smuggling - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House Day 1 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) those individuals who have gone to Albania have been time-served foreign national offenders in our prisons - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Up to the end of November 2023, Home Office immigration enforcement arrested 246 people for people smuggling - Speech Link
3: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) provide an effective deterrent; it must work to secure our borders; it must work to prevent people smuggling - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum System - Tue 09 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Under the Conservatives there has been a 30% drop in the number of people smuggling convictions, which - Speech Link
2: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) bilateral agreements with key countries to speed up the process of returns to ensure that we can clear our prisons - Speech Link