Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Amanda Solloway and John Bercow

Tuesday 25th April 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

The Minister’s presidential duties are evidently not very onerous.

[Amanda Solloway (Derby North) (Con)]

Pictures have recently emerged of people on the streets of Derby city centre that reveal the shocking effect of Black Mamba and the zombie-like state the drug can induce. The police in Derby have been very proactive in taking a stance on this matter, but can the Secretary of State assure me that everything is being done to tackle the availability and use of this type of drug?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Amanda Solloway and John Bercow

Tuesday 26th April 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

The hon. Member for Derby North (Amanda Solloway) is to be congratulated on her marathon on Sunday. She is looking in remarkably good nick.

[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?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Amanda Solloway and John Bercow

Tuesday 8th March 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Oh good, the hon. Member for Derby North (Amanda Solloway) is now stirring. We are grateful to her, as she has an identical question.

[Amanda Solloway (Derby North) (Con)]

22. Following the release of Lord Harris’s report last year on self-inflicted deaths in custody of 18 to 24-year-olds, will the Department be looking to implement any of its recommendations?