All 5 Debates between Nicholas Dakin and Lindsay Hoyle

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Debate between Nicholas Dakin and Lindsay Hoyle
Tuesday 10th December 2024

(2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nicholas Dakin Portrait Sir Nicholas Dakin
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This Government are determined to ensure the best possible conditions in our prisons. We have inherited a crisis in our prisons, I am afraid, but if the hon. Member wishes to write to me about that particular issue, I will be happy to write back to him.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the Chair of the Justice Committee.

Andy Slaughter Portrait Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith and Chiswick) (Lab)
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The condition of our Victorian prisons in particular is not conducive to rehabilitation or preparation for life on release. The Government are pressing ahead with the construction of 20,000 new prison places, which their predecessors failed to honour. What thought has been given, in the design and operation of these major new prisons, to the training, education, addiction and mental health needs of inmates, for whom prison is currently little more than a human warehouse?

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Debate between Nicholas Dakin and Lindsay Hoyle
Tuesday 5th November 2024

(1 month, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Paul Davies Portrait Paul Davies
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Over the past decade, the quality and quantity of education in young offenders institutions has declined, as reported by Sir Martin Oliver, His Majesty’s chief inspector of education, children’s services and skills, and Charlie Taylor, His Majesty’s chief inspector of prisons. These institutions are facing difficulties in managing challenging behaviours, leading to an increase in children being put into isolation. Children in these institutions deserve a high-quality education that helps them to turn their lives around. The current system is failing them badly. Will the Minister outline what actions the Government can take to ensure that young offenders receive a high-quality education—

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. We are in danger of not getting anybody else in. These are becoming statements rather than questions. I am sure the Minister has grasped it.

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Sir Nicholas Dakin
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. We know there is more to be done, as my hon. Friend outlines. Keep-apart lists make it difficult for children to access education in young offenders institutions, so we need to find different and better ways of reducing violence and delivering education in these settings.

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Sir Nicholas Dakin
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I commend the hon. Member for his actions. He is right that visits to local prisons, or prisons elsewhere, are a good thing to do. I have recently visited Humber, Wakefield, and New Hall prisons, and will be visiting Wetherby young offenders institution tomorrow.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the Chair of the Justice Committee.

Andy Slaughter Portrait Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith and Chiswick) (Lab)
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Is the Minister worried about the increasing criminalisation of young people? I notice that the Ministry of Justice published statistics last week that say one in four people of working age in the UK had criminal convictions. Should we not look at the current disclosure framework, so that people with criminal records for minor offences from years ago are not prevented from finding work, moving on and contributing to society?

Burma

Debate between Nicholas Dakin and Lindsay Hoyle
Thursday 15th March 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Sir Lindsay Hoyle)
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I call the ever-patient Nic Dakin.

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker.

This humanitarian disaster shocks us all, but none are more affected than the Bangladeshi diaspora, as my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Sandy Martin) pointed out. I welcome the fact that the Minister will meet Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary soon after this statement. As well as urging Bangladesh to organise and prepare as well as possible for the cyclone and monsoon season, will he offer whatever additional support the UK can give to help with those preparations not only in terms of assistance, but as part of our leadership role as UN penholder on this matter?

United States Tariffs: Steel and Aluminium

Debate between Nicholas Dakin and Lindsay Hoyle
Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Sir Lindsay Hoyle)
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Unfortunately points of order come at the end of the statement.

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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In 2002, when the US Administration last did this, US economists estimated that it cost the US economy 200,000 jobs, and the Administration had to back down when the EU took them to the WTO. Will the Secretary of State reassure this House, and steelworkers in my constituency and elsewhere, that the UK will argue for the strongest possible safeguard measures within the EU’s response?

Business of the House

Debate between Nicholas Dakin and Lindsay Hoyle
Thursday 26th October 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)
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Last, but certainly not least, I call Nic Dakin.

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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I recently launched my Small Business Saturday awards to celebrate the richness and diversity of small businesses in Bottesford, Kirton in Lindsey, Scunthorpe and the surrounding areas. Small Business Saturday is coming up on 2 December, so may we have a debate before that date on the contribution that small businesses make to our economy and communities?