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Prison Estate

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

450 c32-46 

Session

2005-06

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Nick Clegg | 450 c38-40 (Link to this contribution) I too thank the Home Secretary for advance notice of his statement and for dealing with the unpreced...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c32-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement updating the House on developments in...

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David Davis | 450 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) May I start by thanking the Home Secretary for advance sight of his statement. May I also take this ...

John Bercow | 450 c35 (Link to this contribution) It is called chutzpah.

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c36-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his comments about the events of August and the counter-terrori...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 450 c38 (Link to this contribution) As a staggering total of one in seven of our prison population are foreign nationals, will the Home ...

Speaker | 450 c41 (Link to this contribution) Order. This is a very important issue and an awful lot of hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, ...

John Battle | 450 c41 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that Armley prison in my constituency has struggled to cope with over...

Nick Clegg | 450 c40 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Home Secretary will say it again and lead the public debate rather than merely making de...

Alan Reid | 450 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) I will say it again: the reoffending rate for home detention curfew is 4 per cent.; the overall reof...

Ann Widdecombe | 450 c41 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Home Secretary to distinguish between operational capacity and certified normal accomm...

Speaker | 450 c41 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman clearly did not hear my earlier remarks.

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c41 (Link to this contribution) Let me pay tribute not only to the staff at Armley prison but to prison officers throughout the coun...

Tony McNulty | 450 c40 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary has said it all.

Gordon Prentice | 450 c42 (Link to this contribution) I am looking at the Home Office publication entitled, ““World Prison Population List””. Do we have a...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the right hon. Lady the percentages— Because I did not anticipate that I would have t...

Michael Jack | 450 c43 (Link to this contribution) What reassurances can the Home Secretary give the people in my constituency who live near Kirkham op...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c43 (Link to this contribution) Of course I can assure my hon. Friend of that. He knows that I have said that I am more than willing...

Neil Gerrard | 450 c43 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s proposal to look at what can be done to ensure that people who do n...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c43 (Link to this contribution) Actually, those prisoners who, for efficient management of the estate purposes, will go to an open p...

Andrew MacKay | 450 c42 (Link to this contribution) When the Home Secretary described the Department as not fit for purpose, I presume that he was refer...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c42 (Link to this contribution) I would caution the hon. Gentleman as he peruses world encyclopaedias to remember that different cou...

Gwyn Prosser | 450 c42 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Home Secretary for agreeing to meet me and Dover district council to discuss hi...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c42 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I was not referring to my predecessors or prison places. One of the reasons for that ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c46 (Link to this contribution) That is precisely what underlines our approach in the National Offender Management Service. There is...

Tony Baldry | 450 c44 (Link to this contribution) Rehabilitation, literacy learning and detox programmes all require a degree of stability. Will the H...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c44 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do. I want to see more involvement of and partnership with the voluntary sector, as well as w...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c44 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I know that that is the ideal, and the objective of those who...

Bob Russell | 450 c43 (Link to this contribution) Is the Home Secretary aware that, in July 1998, the Home Affairs Committee published a report entitl...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c43 (Link to this contribution) I do not know any of the specific cases to which my hon. Friend refers. However, if people are allow...

Kerry McCarthy | 450 c44 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend rightly stressed the importance of community sentences to reducing reoffending....

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c44 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the hon. Gentleman’s second question is Dover, but if he knows of any other barracks, ...

John Bercow | 450 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) Given that we get scandalously poor value for money from tens of thousands of people perambulating r...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c45 (Link to this contribution) Both of those activities are important—not only drugs, which are an obvious problem, but the use of ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 450 c38 (Link to this contribution) To start with the second part of my right hon. Friend’s question, my view on that is known. Foreign ...

David Davis | 450 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says, it is called chutzpah. Regrettably, I cannot say the same of the Government...

Adrian Bailey | 450 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. The issue of prison capacity was raised with me on many ...

Subjects

Foreign nationals Prisoners Prisons Sentencing Detention centres

Contains statistics

Yes

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