HMP Birmingham Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

HMP Birmingham

Keith Vaz Excerpts
Monday 19th December 2016

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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I should be very pleased to meet the hon. Gentleman.

Keith Vaz Portrait Keith Vaz (Leicester East) (Lab)
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If the Secretary of State is looking for some light reading over Christmas, she would do well to acquire a copy of a book by the hon. Member for Hexham (Guy Opperman), “Doing Time: Prisons in the 21st Century”, which contains a number of ideas. If I heard you correctly, Mr Speaker, you mentioned the hon. Gentleman’s intended marriage. Perhaps, if the Secretary of State were able to buy a copy, that would help with the cost of the wedding.

There are currently 9,971 foreign nationals in our prisons. In order to reduce the prison population, what further steps are being taken to return them to their countries of origin?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Book sales will no doubt increase manifold.