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Drugs Policy

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

520 c341-76WH 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c342-3WH (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree, and those figures will not bear scrutiny. That is what we ought to do—scrutinise...

Paul Flynn | 520 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his courage and vision, and it is a pleasure to be here today...

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Mike Weatherley | 520 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his courage in holding the debate today. It is a welcome ...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c345-7WH (Link to this contribution) We should listen to the experts. I went to see the person who runs the drug treatment facilities for...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c347WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentioned science, and I saw Professor Nutt on television today, coming to ...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c344-5WH (Link to this contribution) I intend to move on to what I am proposing shortly and knock down some of the things that have been ...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c345WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a strong case for harm minimisation, as if it were the solution to th...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c345WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, am ambitious for people, and if anyone can be cured of an addiction, I want them to be cured...

Mike Weatherley | 520 c345WH (Link to this contribution) Were the drug rehabilitation programmes based on methadone or abstinence? I have been to various dru...

Helen Grant | 520 c348WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for having the bravery to initiate this important debate. Drugs des...

Speaker | 520 c348WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I think we need to let Mr Ainsworth respond to the intervention. May I say to all colleagues ...

Caroline Lucas | 520 c347WH (Link to this contribution) I want to cite a couple of people who support the right hon. Gentleman's position. Sir Ian Gilmore, ...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c347-8WH (Link to this contribution) I have been helped in preparing this speech, and in my thinking on this matter, by an organisation c...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c347WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to listen to what I am saying. I am not advocating kiosks on street corners...

Mike Weatherley | 520 c352WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was talking about the Nordic view and Portugal; is he aware of the Swiss model? T...

Neil Carmichael | 520 c349-50WH (Link to this contribution) My name is Neil Carmichael, in case there is any doubt about my being anonymous. I welcome this imp...

Paul Flynn | 520 c350-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is a joy among reasonable people to hear one prohibitionist talking good sense. That can be a tur...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c348-9WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her heartfelt comments. She disagrees with me. Turning the clock back to w...

Speaker | 520 c349WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Six Back Benchers are here and we have quite a bit of time. Just two Back Benchers were plann...

Paul Flynn | 520 c352-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am very much aware of it. I did a scientific analysis some eight years ago of what was happening i...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c353WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman paints a very rosy picture of people living a long and happy life on heroin. One ...

Paul Flynn | 520 c353-4WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is simplifying the problem. No one is in favour of people going on methadone for ...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c354WH (Link to this contribution) We agree on that point, but the matter is much worse. The number of methadone interventions—prescrip...

Paul Flynn | 520 c354-5WH (Link to this contribution) There seems to be a concentration on methadone as a solution. It is not. It is part of the problem. ...

Speaker | 520 c355WH (Link to this contribution) Order. It is conventional that I now call an hon. Member on the Government Benches, but I am aware t...

Caroline Lucas | 520 c355-7WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Walker. I appreciate that, and I am honoured to follow the hon. Member for Newport Wes...

Mike Weatherley | 520 c357WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that there is a small problem with the benefits culture, which often helps ...

Caroline Lucas | 520 c357-8WH (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting observation. Yes. If the Government are serious about tackling drug abuse th...

Tom Brake | 520 c358WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being in the Chamber at the beginning of this important debate and I welcome the...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c341-2WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you for presiding over our debate this afternoon, Mr Walker. I thank the Backbench Business C...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c342WH (Link to this contribution) I am the secretary of the all-party parliamentary drug misuse group. The right hon. Gentleman menti...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c361WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is well intentioned. I do not know whether he thinks that no one considers these thin...

Mike Weatherley | 520 c360-1WH (Link to this contribution) Surely one of the reasons why we are having this debate is to have a frank and varied discussion. Do...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c361WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept that the hon. Lady is well intentioned, but the right hon. Member for Coventry N...

Caroline Lucas | 520 c361WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for tutting, but the reason why I was tutting is that I do not think that any hon. Membe...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c361-2WH (Link to this contribution) I could not agree with the hon. Lady more. We talk about mixed messages. The right hon. Gentleman as...

Caroline Lucas | 520 c358-9WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that our position needs to be based on science and evidence, and reg...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c359WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak in the debate, Mr Walker. It was not my intention ...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c359WH (Link to this contribution) Neither I, nor anyone else, proposes to force the hon. Gentleman's constituent to start taking drugs...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c360WH (Link to this contribution) The policy is making a real difference in my constituency now. If the right hon. Gentleman comes to ...

James Brokenshire | 520 c371-2WH (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to have an annual debate on decriminalisation. What I want to see is the emerging ev...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c370-1WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his firm support for continued scientific input on the advisory committee. ...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c376WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Burton (Andrew Griffiths)said that I am the only person who is looking for a qui...

James Brokenshire | 520 c372-5WH (Link to this contribution) I agree, and the issue of champions is developed in the strategy; I hope to discuss it shortly. Havi...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c372WH (Link to this contribution) I think that the vast majority of those involved in drug treatment recognise that it will take a whi...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c362WH (Link to this contribution) I was drugs Minster for two years.

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c362WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to steal the Minister's thunder, but I think he will outline how payment by results an...

Tom Brake | 520 c362WH (Link to this contribution) Earlier, the hon. Gentleman said that all the Transform organisation did was research. Does he feel ...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c362-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. It is true that we do not yet have enough evidence on ...

Diana Johnson | 520 c363-8WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Walker. I congratulate my right...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c368WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady raises a point that is crucial to the success of payment by results. The danger is tha...

Diana Johnson | 520 c368WH (Link to this contribution) We will want to look carefully at the pilots and exactly how such problems might be dealt with. Ther...

James Brokenshire | 520 c369-70WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Walker, for presiding over this Westminster Hall debate on drugs policy, and for givin...

Caroline Lucas | 520 c361WH (Link to this contribution) What confuses young people is mixed messages given out by Governments, people obviously being hypocr...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c362WH (Link to this contribution) If a child, grandchild or relative of mine had a serious addiction and was in a place where rehab wo...

Andrew Griffiths | 520 c362WH (Link to this contribution) It is true that the right hon. Gentleman was drugs Minister for a number of years, and I understand ...

Bob Ainsworth | 520 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I will move on to some of those issues later in my speech. The only point on which I disagree with m...

Subjects

Drugs Misuse Policy Regulation Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

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