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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 19 June 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Falconer of Thoroton.

Prisons: Population

Lords statement on the prison population.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
693 c96-108 
Session
2006-07
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c106 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some crimes have gone up, but overall the number of crimes has gone down. I completely acc...
Lord Cobbold | 693 c106 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does not the prison population relate, at least in part, to the policy of drugs prohibitio...
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Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c106 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is completely right when he says that none of the measures that I have indi...
Lord Waddington | 693 c106 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is it also true that, as a percentage of the population, more crimes are committed in this...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c105 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I completely agree with the tone and content of what my noble friend said. This is a measu...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 693 c105 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, without in any way criticising the measures announced by the noble and learned Lord, they ...
Earl of Listowel | 693 c107 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome what the Lord Chancellor has said about the Government’s efforts to secure more ...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c107 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are no proposals to change the pre-release procedures, apart from the fact that pris...
Lord Morris of Handsworth | 693 c106 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the current pre-release procedures, which prepare prisoners for life in the outside w...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c106 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords, I do not think that that would be the right policy. I accept the drug-driven aspect of...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 693 c104 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree entirely with the point that the noble Lord, Lord Elton, made about prevention. Wi...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c104 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am afraid that I cannot give any commitment today on resources. The report to which I re...
Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 693 c104 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, just now the noble and learned Lord took credit for the Government insisting on the terms ...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c105 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, today we are saying no to executive release but we are saying that the Prison Service, in ...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c104 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord’s point about infrastructure is important. It is not good enough to build j...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 693 c105 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, given the tone of comment in the media, will my noble and learned friend confirm that toda...
Baroness Crawley | 693 c105 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps we could hear from the Benches behind us and then from the Cross Benches.
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c107 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the noble Earl in paying tribute to the work done by the DIVERT Trust, set up by th...
Lord Judd | 693 c107 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble and learned friend for very helpful and speedy Statements since he assume...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all offenders who are sentenced to prison and qualify for transfer to a secure mental inst...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c103 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the problems with a full prison estate is that people have to be moved around a lot...
Lord Richard | 693 c103 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with respect, I think it should probably be our side. Is it not strange that at a time wh...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am afraid that I do not know what the noble Lord, Lord Henley, would say in answer to th...
Lord Ramsbotham | 693 c104 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the problems with overcrowding is that it involves a shortage not just of cell spac...
Lord Elton | 693 c102 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the change in the guidelines must be substantial to secure the release of so many extra pr...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c102 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, yes, there has been a reduction in the rate of reoffending. In 2005, the most recent perio...
Lord Quirk | 693 c103 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the noble and learned Lord the Lord Chancellor not agree that one of the effects of i...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I completely agree with the noble Lord’s last remarks. We should intervene earlier with th...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c96-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now make a Statement on the prison population. The M...
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale | 693 c102 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can my noble and learned friend confirm that releasing prisoners on licence 18 days before...
Lord Dholakia | 693 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for the Statement. Unlike the noble Lord, Lord Henley, I am not undul...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 693 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Henley, for not giving him the final version of the St...
Lord Henley | 693 c98-100 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in thanking the noble and learned Lord for making that Statement to this House, I thank hi...
Subjects
Bail Construction Parole Prisoners Prisons Police custody Population Reviews Approved premises
Contains statistics
Yes
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