Jake Richards
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Drones: High-security Prisons
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Sir Nicholas Dakin
The residents of Broxbourne will be well aware that for 14 years, the Government that the hon. Gentleman supported failed to tackle this problem. This Government are rolling up our sleeves and getting on with it.
Jake Richards (Rother Valley) (Lab)
This is a long-standing problem, and the previous Government did not do anywhere near enough to deal with it. What they did do, when former Prime Minister Liz Truss was Lord Chancellor, was arrange for more dogs to bark at drones around prisons, which they assured us would work. Has the Ministry of Justice done an assessment on how effective that policy was?
Sir Nicholas Dakin
I think everybody agrees that that policy was barking.