Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Amanda Solloway and Andrew Selous

Tuesday 27th February 2024 Commons Chamber

[Amanda Solloway]

I thank my hon. Friend for raising that point. We have begun developing a consultation on the role of renewable liquid fuels in heat. We expect Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Ministers to receive detailed information on the shape of the consultation in the coming weeks, and aim to publish in the summer of 2024.

[Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con)]

15. When she plans to publish the second consultation on the review of electricity market arrangements.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Amanda Solloway and Andrew Selous

Tuesday 26th April 2016 Commons Chamber

[Amanda Solloway (Derby North) (Con)]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Perhaps my colleagues would like to join me next year, as I try to smash my time of seven hours and 17 minutes.

Last month, I visited a prison in Nottingham that serves as a primary prison for many offenders in Derby. Today, an ongoing inquest into the death of a Derby man who died in his cell revealed that traces of legal highs were found in his body. What assurances can the Minister give me that the Department is doing all it can to tackle the levels of legal highs in our prison system?

[Andrew Selous]

Obviously, my hon. Friend raises a tragic case, and I can tell her that it will shortly be a criminal offence to possess lethal highs, as I prefer to call them, in prison. In addition, we are starting a testing regime. Together, those two measures will help us get on top of this evil trade in our prisons.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Amanda Solloway and Andrew Selous

Tuesday 26th January 2016 Commons Chamber

[Amanda Solloway (Derby North) (Con)]

Following the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Halesowen and Rowley Regis (James Morris), what steps are being taken to ensure that all prisoners with mental health issues are dealt with safely, appropriately and compassionately?

[Andrew Selous]

I am glad that my hon. Friend has raised this issue again. Whenever a prisoner comes into prison, they immediately have a full health assessment. That health practitioner has the ability to refer on to the prison’s in-reach mental health services. Furthermore, through our liaison and diversion services, we now have either learning disability or mental health nurses available at police stations and in courts, so we can start the mental health treatment right at the beginning of the journey into the criminal justice system.