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Proceeding contribution from Philip Dunne (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 8 October 2007. It occurred during Debate on bill on Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.


Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

I am grateful for that perceptive point. I agree that drugs are readily available within the prison population, and the Government seem to have nothing in the Bill to seek to address that problem. There are rehabilitation formats that work. I have an excellent one in my constituency in Willowdene Farm, which has an exemplary track record in getting people off drugs. Many of them have offended and gone to that place following a prison term. However, the Home Office budget for the drugs intervention programme has been cut 13 per cent. this year. It is currently £149 million. It was over £170 million last year. That is another example of the Government saying that they are going to try to do something, but the controller of the purse strings, our new Prime Minister, cut resources to the Home Office. Consequently, the Home Office is having to make cuts in those programmes. [Interruption.] Does the Minister wish to intervene?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
464 c110-1 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Disclosure of information Compensation Data protection Crime prevention Curriculum Crime Administration of justice Crimes against the person Software Anti-social behaviour British nationality Bureaucracy Court of Appeal Finance Homosexuality Human rights Judiciary Immigration controls Incitement EU law Drugs Undocumented migrants Human trafficking Internet General practitioners Offenders NHS Northern Ireland Parents Police Prisons Pornography Police community support officers Probation Offences against children Prostitution National Offender Management Service Migration Sentencing Standards Terrorism Young people Young offenders Victims Anti-social behaviour orders Prison accommodation Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Young offender institutions Self-defence
Legislation
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2006-07 to 2007-08
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk