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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 19 June 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hanson of Flint.

Prison Population

Statement on prison population.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
461 c1241-54 
Session
2006-07
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Martin Salter | 461 c1250 (Link to this contribution) Has the Minister had an opportunity to read the written evidence given by no fewer than 43 different...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1249-50 (Link to this contribution) We are very aware of the foreign prisoner issue, which my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, Sou...
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Elfyn Llwyd | 461 c1249 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned this matter in his statement. The hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mull...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1249 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, under the 2003 Act there are 12 community-based sentences that we can use, ...
Ann Cryer | 461 c1249 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend go into a little more detail on his comments about extending and expanding...
Speaker | 461 c1249 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister is in order to speak about the history of a Government Department. He was not in...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1248-9 (Link to this contribution) There are continuing demands on public expenditure, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman will rec...
Lord Howard of Lympne | 461 c1248 (Link to this contribution) As the crisis was both foreseeable and foreseen, can the Minister confirm that each of the past four...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1248 (Link to this contribution) I accept what my hon. Friend says. In answer to the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1247-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has a thoughtful approach to such issues. One of the Minist...
Simon Hughes | 461 c1246-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his statement. He will know that several of his announcements for the futur...
Chris Mullin | 461 c1248 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend says that the issue of foreign prisoners is small but significant, but may I su...
John Denham | 461 c1246 (Link to this contribution) Given the pressures on the prison population, the measures that my right hon. Friend has announced a...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1245-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) for raising some issues. M...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1246 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes several important points. As he will know, my right hon. Friend the Lord ...
Speaker | 461 c1246 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but I have told another hon. Member that on...
Lord Garnier | 461 c1245 (Link to this contribution) I think the Minister has got my point.
Speaker | 461 c1245 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. and learned Gentleman, but I laid down a rule that there wou...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1254 (Link to this contribution) Again, I cannot go into the details. The reply depends on many factors, including a risk assessment ...
James Clappison | 461 c1254 (Link to this contribution) Is this not yet one more blow to honesty in sentencing—the relationship between the nominal sentence...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1254 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an exceptional point. A large element among the people who are in prison to...
Lord Robathan | 461 c1252 (Link to this contribution) Last week, my constituent, Kenneth Milburn of Enderby, was jailed for five years for illegal possess...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1252 (Link to this contribution) There is a range of issues. I accept that many people are held on remand, in some cases for very lon...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1253 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman’s point. We need to tackle drug trafficking into prisons, perhaps throug...
Christopher Chope | 461 c1253 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree with staff at Dorchester prison, which I recently visited, whose assessment ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1253 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept that I am unable to comment on individual cases that he m...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1251-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s concern for my innocent victimhood. I do no...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 461 c1251 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that in the past 10 years four Home Secretaries have responded to media pre...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1252 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has raised an important point. As he has mentioned, yesterday the Under-Secretary of ...
Stephen Pound | 461 c1252 (Link to this contribution) As one who does not read the Daily Mail and who views the prospect of 100,000 of my fellow citizens ...
Vincent Cable | 461 c1252 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware of the contribution to prison overcrowding made by the growing length of time ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1250 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very important point. I appeared before the Committee—two weeks ago, I think...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1250 (Link to this contribution) I respect the right hon. Gentleman very much, and I respect his contribution to the debate on tackli...
Iain Duncan Smith | 461 c1250 (Link to this contribution) The Prison Service is full of young men, three quarters of whom have serious alcohol and drug addict...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1251 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will know, I have been in post for five weeks. I need to examine a number of issue...
David Leslie Taylor | 461 c1251 (Link to this contribution) With prisons bursting at the seams and a new Department in charge, this is a watershed at which cert...
Speaker | 461 c1242 (Link to this contribution) Order. Members must allow the Minister to make his statement; then we shall have questions.
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1242-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me be clear from the outset: release on licence is not the same as Executive release. Releasing ...
Lord Garnier | 461 c1243 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the Minister for showing me his statement—20 minutes ago. Earlier this afternoon...
Speaker | 461 c1243 (Link to this contribution) Order. I say to the hon. and learned Gentleman that he should not be making a statement; he should b...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 461 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) I wish to repeat a statement made by the Lord Chancellor in another place. The Ministry of Justice ...
John Bercow | 461 c1253-4 (Link to this contribution) Given that more than 60 per cent. of the 12,000-plus people in our young offenders institutions suff...
Lord Garnier | 461 c1243-5 (Link to this contribution) You kindly, but not for the first time, anticipate me, Mr. Speaker. I am just about to ask the quest...
Subjects
Bail Construction Prisoners Prisons Police custody Prisoners' release Population Reviews Approved premises
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