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Parliamentary proceeding

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498 c577

Session

2008-09

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Home Office

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House of Commons chamber

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
Monday, 2 November 2009
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Alan Johnson | 498 c577 (Link to this contribution) There is no question but that, since its establishment in 1971, the independent and expert advice of...

Lord Grayling | 498 c577 (Link to this contribution) (Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary if he will make a statement about the dismissal of the ...

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Alan Johnson | 498 c580 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for reminding me of that; I will bear it in mind in the doubtles...

Alan Johnson | 498 c581-2 (Link to this contribution) The simple answer is yes. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why we cannot possibly be expe...

Jim Dobbin | 498 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) It seems to me that Professor Nutt has been campaigning for the normalisation or deregulation of rec...

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 498 c580 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that Professor Nutt does not hold a universal scientific view of t...

Lord Grayling | 498 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by reiterating my view that the Home Secretary's decision on Friday regarding Professor...

Alan Johnson | 498 c581 (Link to this contribution) I sincerely hope that it does not, once it has been explained exactly why this episode has occurred ...

Alan Johnson | 498 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) We have a code and it has stood the test of time. Perhaps we should look at it again because it is g...

Alan Johnson | 498 c581 (Link to this contribution) The ACMD has done a good job, but of course it is the politicians' job to take into account a whole ...

Alan Johnson | 498 c580 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course. I just quoted Professor Robin Murray, who believes—I think it is absolutely irrefuta...

Alan Johnson | 498 c582 (Link to this contribution) I did not say that, but I can say what Government advisers should not do. Once a decision has been m...

Richard Taylor | 498 c581 (Link to this contribution) Is the Home Secretary satisfied that this episode does not risk putting off other experts from actin...

Alan Johnson | 498 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) I think I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support. I am not sure whether to or not, actually. He as...

Alan Johnson | 498 c582 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with my hon. Friend in that I do not believe this episode suggests that there should be a...

Meg Munn | 498 c581-2 (Link to this contribution) Recently I went with the police in Sheffield to observe a raid on a property where cannabis was bein...

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 498 c583 (Link to this contribution) The Government's chief scientific adviser is Professor John Beddington, who in February criticised t...

Chris Huhne | 498 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) Both the Home Secretary and the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) have missed the poi...

Brian Iddon | 498 c582 (Link to this contribution) Does this saga not indicate that what we need in this country is a straightforward and honest debate...

Adam Afriyie | 498 c582 (Link to this contribution) Was it made clear in Professor Nutt's employment documents, in the code of conduct or in writing tha...

Stephen Ladyman | 498 c581 (Link to this contribution) As a Member with a scientific background, I would be the first to say that science must inform the d...

George Howarth | 498 c580 (Link to this contribution) If my right hon. Friend had taken Professor Nutt's advice and lowered the categorisation of cannabis...

Lord Cormack | 498 c580 (Link to this contribution) As the Home Secretary comes under attack, will he remind himself that it was Churchill who said that...

Alan Johnson | 498 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) Piety and pomposity in equal measure. The Government, and I in particular, have listened to scientif...

David Davis | 498 c581 (Link to this contribution) May I give unequivocal support not only to the Home Secretary's decision but to the reasoning behind...

Alan Johnson | 498 c582 (Link to this contribution) No, it was not. He is entitled to speak on these issues in the public domain provided he is very cle...

Alan Johnson | 498 c581 (Link to this contribution) I will reflect very carefully on the points that my hon. Friend has made. It is important to recogni...

Alan Johnson | 498 c584 (Link to this contribution) I would tell them what the leading Scottish drugs expert said this morning. Professor McKeganey, dir...

Nick Palmer | 498 c583-4 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary agree that although he is entirely entitled to have any adviser whom he choo...

Alan Johnson | 498 c583-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with my hon. Friend. The public get a lot of views and comments from all over the pla...

Alan Johnson | 498 c583 (Link to this contribution) I did not discuss it with anybody. It was my decision; he was my adviser and I decided that he had l...

Evan Harris | 498 c582 (Link to this contribution) If a scientist is appointed a Government adviser but then told that what he says is dependent on the...

Pete Wishart | 498 c584 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State tell me what I am supposed to say to my constituents following this unedi...

Alan Johnson | 498 c580 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think it would have been. That is why my predecessor decided not to take that advice and why ...

Subjects

Drugs

Misuse

Resignations

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Scientific advisers

Nutt, David

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