Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Sarah Newton Excerpts
Monday 6th September 2010

(14 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Damian Green Portrait Damian Green
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My hon. Friend is correct. At the moment, we are looking at alternatives to detention for children. Yarl’s Wood is, as he knows, used for the detention both of single women and of women with families. It is our intention to minimise the detention of children in the future as a whole and, therefore, that aspect of Yarl’s Wood’s use will disappear, but clearly not its use for adult women.

Sarah Newton Portrait Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth) (Con)
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Will my right hon. Friend join me in offering the warmest congratulations to the Prime Minister and his wife on the safe delivery of their daughter, Florence Rose Endellion, at the Royal Cornwall hospital in my constituency? Will she join me in thanking the staff at the hospital for their kindness and care, given not only to the Camerons but to all those visiting Cornwall for their holidays who find themselves in need of the NHS?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I am sure that somewhere in that eloquently and elegantly phrased question the hon. Lady wanted some sort of response on police matters—perhaps police attendance, police security or something of that sort.

Sarah Newton Portrait Sarah Newton
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Indeed, Mr Speaker.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am grateful to the hon. Lady.