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Drug Strategy

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

474 c939-62 

Session

2007-08

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Coaker | 474 c939 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of the Drug Strategy." Let me start by tha...

Philip Davies | 474 c939 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister will focus on the role played by prisons. Far too often, people go into pri...

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Paul Flynn | 474 c940 (Link to this contribution) A good place to start would be to look at the outcome of the billions of pounds that have been spent...

Lord Coaker | 474 c940 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman and I have discussed on several occasions, we need to monitor certain things t...

Lord Brady of Altrincham | 474 c940 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree, though, that one of the most obvious ways in which we could tackle the prob...

Lord Coaker | 474 c941 (Link to this contribution) A lot of representations have been made to me, particularly from the Somali community and from Membe...

Barry Gardiner | 474 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) I probably speak for many Members on both sides of the House in saying that I welcome the Minister's...

Lord Mann | 474 c941-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will have seen the representations made by the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Camero...

James Brokenshire | 474 c943-4 (Link to this contribution) Despite the Minister's fine words, the UK has the highest level of problem drug use in Europe. In 10...

Lord Coaker | 474 c942-3 (Link to this contribution) We have no intention to introduce so-called shooting galleries anywhere in the country, including my...

Lord Coaker | 474 c940 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry about that. I discuss and debate many of these matters with my hon. Friend at great lengt...

Paul Flynn | 474 c944 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) made some perceptive and interesting comments about d...

David Amess | 474 c955 (Link to this contribution) I enjoyed listening to the speeches of the hon. Members for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) and for N...

Paul Flynn | 474 c956 (Link to this contribution) One of the pressing arguments that persuaded the then Home Secretary to change the classification wa...

David Amess | 474 c956 (Link to this contribution) I said that I was not going to fall out with the hon. Gentleman, but I must say that his view on can...

Paul Flynn | 474 c955 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

David Amess | 474 c956 (Link to this contribution) I shall do so—but only briefly—as I have dropped my papers.

Lord Mann | 474 c957-9 (Link to this contribution) With respect, I do not think there is time to take interventions. People are smoking far less, so p...

Lord Mann | 474 c956 (Link to this contribution) We may all be united, but there are different points of view on this matter. There may be a vaguenes...

Lord Mann | 474 c959 (Link to this contribution) The would-be Home Secretary from the Liberals has not commented on drugs, or anything else, since th...

Lord Brady of Altrincham | 474 c949 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman accept that, at the time of the previous reclassification of cannabis, ther...

Lord Mann | 474 c950 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is giving the House an interesting analysis of the situation, but I am failing to...

Lord Mann | 474 c951 (Link to this contribution) I should like to clarify this important matter of policy. Is it the hon. Gentleman's policy to accep...

Tom Brake | 474 c951 (Link to this contribution) I can only say that our policy will be strongly influenced by the advisory council. I cannot prejudg...

Brian Iddon | 474 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to what the hon. Member for Hornchurch (James Brokenshire) had to say. It came ...

Lord Brady of Altrincham | 474 c952 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Brian Iddon | 474 c952-4 (Link to this contribution) I should prefer to continue, if I may. We must be very careful about the way in which we apply our ...

Paul Flynn | 474 c946 (Link to this contribution) I will not pursue the superficial speech of the hon. Member for Hornchurch (James Brokenshire), whic...

Geoffrey Cox | 474 c946 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Hornchurch (James Brokensh...

Lord Mann | 474 c945 (Link to this contribution) What would the hon. Gentleman say to hon. Members, who have called for more methadone prescribing in...

James Brokenshire | 474 c945-6 (Link to this contribution) Methadone has its place in the treatment regime, for example, when sex workers move from addiction a...

Philip Davies | 474 c945 (Link to this contribution) Thanks to the Centre for Social Justice, I spent four days at St. George's Crypt in Leeds, which dea...

James Brokenshire | 474 c945 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for recommending that work. It is important to recognise the great w...

James Brokenshire | 474 c944 (Link to this contribution) As we know, 80 per cent. of seizures are of super-strength cannabis. We therefore urgently need to c...

Tom Brake | 474 c949 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this topical debate. The reason for its topicality was the drugs strategy, but there has a...

Paul Flynn | 474 c946-9 (Link to this contribution) I will not go into the details of why the speech that the hon. Member for Hornchurch made was superf...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c959-60 (Link to this contribution) In the few minutes remaining, I am pleased to contribute to the debate. One of the first things I di...

Lord Coaker | 474 c960-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank all hon. Members for the quality of the debate. The hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Ames...

Tom Brake | 474 c950 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made a strong point that in some respects strengthens my point about widening...

Tom Brake | 474 c959 (Link to this contribution) I want to inform the hon. Gentleman that my right hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. ...

Lord Coaker | 474 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, one of the things to consider is how drugs get into prisons and to ensure that we are rob...

Tom Brake | 474 c951 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that that is our policy. I am sure that, if the advisory council were to come up with ...

Subjects

Abuse Enforcement Drugs Medical treatments Misuse

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