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Lords Chamber
Prison Capacities - Thu 12 Sep 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) As already has been said, we must reduce the number of women in prison. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) people entering the prison system, with a focus on how to address the overrepresentation in prison of - Speech Link
3: Lord McNally (LD - Life peer) to assess either public opinion or opinion in the other place about penal policy. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sentences (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report) - Fri 26 Jul 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) I understand the immediate issue of overcrowding in the system that needs urgent action, but I am concerned - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) sentences.Our report came out in the context of the criminal justice system being regarded, according - Speech Link
3: Lord Paddick (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In a legal system where the defendant can refuse to participate in the process, and where people in wigs - Speech Link
4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) justice system, and I look forward to visiting one of the sites, in Birmingham, in the coming weeks.Although - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 24 Jul 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Morrow (DUP - Life peer) British justice system, once viewed as the finest in the world and the envy of many nations, has been - Speech Link
2: Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (Con - Life peer) The previous Government brought down radically the number of children in the justice system, which was - Speech Link
3: Lord McNally (LD - Life peer) to reduce the number of women in prison? - Speech Link
4: Lord Shamash (Lab - Life peer) There are 26% fewer duty solicitors in the criminal court system than in 2017. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) She has read out, in my presence in the House of Commons, the names of women who have been killed by - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage part one - Tue 21 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) This is an estimated 600 prisoners out of the almost 3,000 still in the system. - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) As a Government Minister—particularly one in charge of the justice system and the prison systemthe most - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham (Bshp - Bishops) reform of the criminal justice system, particularly in respect of our prisons, for which she is the - Speech Link
4: None The system does not work. It is failing women and children. - Speech Link
5: None in relation to the matters mentioned in subsection (1)(a).(5) In this section—“the 1997 Act” means the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Indeterminate Sentences - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) they continue to be treated in the current way. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) life in the community. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Lincoln (Bshp - Bishops) My Lords, recently in Lincoln prison I met a man who has been continuously in the prison system for the - Speech Link
4: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (XB - Life peer) The system is so badly broken. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) That blatant disregard for accountability exposes the shortcomings in the justice system and underscores - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) cases of child marriage, the penal code in Sri Lanka permits under the MMDA what would otherwise constitute - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) in the last few years. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None I express my deep gratitude for the efforts of all those working in the criminal justice system: prisons - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) means there is £0.5 billion less money for the justice system in the next two-year period. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) Recognising the importance of custody as one of the tools in our penal system, we did not introduce wholesale - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) For the recalled cohort and for those in the community, the reduction in the licence period from 10 years - Speech Link
2: None Look at those young women who suffered at the hands of the grooming gangs in the north of England while - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) the judges within the court system, it is the Master of the Rolls who decides which judges in the appellate - Speech Link
4: Lord Pannick (XB - Life peer) In my view, public confidence in the criminal justice system depends vitally on the independence and - Speech Link
5: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In the Root and Branch Review of the Parole System, the Government committed to increasing“the number - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None I have not addressed the wider points about the prison system in general; that is for another day and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) in the justice system. - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) All of us, in our different ways, have had different experiences of the prison system, the courts system - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) that many IPP prisoners are stuck in the system and that appropriate psychiatric care in the community - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) in his prisons or in other parts of the world. - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) The first is the Global Ukraine Rail Task Force, which tries to raise money in Europe, here in the UK - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) The noble Lord may recall that the structures of the international system, particularly the UN bodies - Speech Link