Proceeding contribution from Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 19 June 2007. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Prisons: Population.
Prisons: Population
No, my Lords, I do not think that that would be the right policy. I accept the drug-driven aspect of very many crimes and very many offenders. In the Statement I referred to drug rehabilitation programmes in prisons, on which expenditure has risen from £2 million to £79 million since we came to power. I do not think the solution is to decriminalise a variety of drugs that are currently illegal. The right solution is to do as much as we can to rehabilitate those who are fuelled by drugs in the crimes that they commit.
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- 2006-07
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- Bail Construction Parole Prisoners Prisons Police custody Population Reviews Approved premises
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