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Stuart C McDonald Excerpts
Tuesday 5th June 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rory Stewart Portrait Rory Stewart
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This question and the questions about Nottingham and Exeter reveal a fundamental challenge across the system in terms of assaults on prison officers. The solution has to be to have the right numbers of officers to restore the predictability of the regime, so that prisoners calm down; to have body-worn cameras and CCTV in place; and to make sure that in Bedford and all the other challenged, violent local prisons we bring these measures into place.

Stuart C McDonald Portrait Stuart C. McDonald (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) (SNP)
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What are the Government doing to reduce the ridiculous one-year wait for immigration tribunal appeal hearings?

Lucy Frazer Portrait Lucy Frazer
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I challenge the hon. Gentleman on his figures. I am happy to give him the correct figures, but the Government are doing a lot to reduce waiting times for every type of tribunal, by increasing the number of members of the judiciary and bringing in a number of measures to make tribunals work much more effectively together.