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Controls on Legal Highs

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

515 c149-72WH 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

David Burrowes | 515 c159WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for arriving late at this important debate. It is a pleasure to have my first opportunit...

Tom Brake | 515 c158-9WH (Link to this contribution) Fortunately, I am 101% certain that no one will come back and say that cocaine is harmless—if anythi...

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James Brokenshire | 515 c154-5WH (Link to this contribution) The relevant point here concerning legal highs is that the ACMD flagged up to the Government its con...

Lord Walney | 515 c156WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate and many of the steps that the new Government are taking, which follow the pre...

James Brokenshire | 515 c154WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. In circumstances in which legislation subsequently chan...

Lord Walney | 515 c154WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not agree that it would be strange if subsequent medical advice changed our unders...

Tom Brake | 515 c157-8WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the debate, Mr Davies. This is the first debate in which you have been in the Chair...

Lord Walney | 515 c158WH (Link to this contribution) These people know what the law is when it is put in place, but they choose to break it. By the hon. ...

Tom Brake | 515 c156WH (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's point, but does he foresee difficulties if someone sells Shake 'n'...

Lord Walney | 515 c156-7WH (Link to this contribution) I take the theoretical point, but I am not sure whether, in the real world, one would come remotely ...

James Brokenshire | 515 c149-54WH (Link to this contribution) It is a real pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies, in your first debate in Westminst...

Tom Brake | 515 c154WH (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister clarify one aspect of the temporary ban? If the advisory council subsequently finds...

James Brokenshire | 515 c167WH (Link to this contribution) We have had a good, wide-ranging debate about legal highs. Various hon. Members highlighted the fact...

Lord Walney | 515 c159WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Alan Campbell | 515 c164WH (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the hon. Gentleman the assurance he seeks because he is sending me along a route he kn...

Tom Brake | 515 c164WH (Link to this contribution) Let me inform the hon. Gentleman that members of the Home Affairs Committee went to Portugal and Spa...

Alan Campbell | 515 c165-7WH (Link to this contribution) Politicians always think that they back the public because they hope the public will back them. The ...

Tom Brake | 515 c164-5WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman go on the record and confirm that if a policy is backed by clear, evidence-b...

Lord Walney | 515 c160WH (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman made some concession after I signalled that I wanted to intervene....

David Burrowes | 515 c159WH (Link to this contribution) In a moment. I concede that the previous Government eventually took action in relation to mephedrone...

Alan Campbell | 515 c161-4WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to your role as Chairman, Mr Davies, particularly as this is your first debate in that...

David Burrowes | 515 c160-1WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. If he gives me the opportunity, I will reflect on ...

Alan Campbell | 515 c167WH (Link to this contribution) I just want to make a very personal point. The records show that in fact the very first time that th...

Tom Brake | 515 c168WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that he is not looking at the Portuguese model, but there were references in the p...

James Brokenshire | 515 c167-8WH (Link to this contribution) I note the point that the hon. Gentleman has made, but clearly it was his Government who sent out so...

Tom Brake | 515 c169WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister may be about to come on to this, but when does he expect the temporary ban to kick in a...

James Brokenshire | 515 c168-9WH (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment on the countenance of reporting in The Observer, but I can send out a very clear me...

Alan Campbell | 515 c169WH (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely confused, but I am sure that the Minister can put my mind at rest. If a substance is ...

James Brokenshire | 515 c169WH (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to second-guess the issue or look into a crystal ball. We are in close consultation ...

James Brokenshire | 515 c169-72WH (Link to this contribution) I thought I had already explained the position. I am sorry if I have not made it clear. The emphasis...

Subjects

Drugs Misuse Mephedrone

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