Parliamentary search - Rehabilitation and Sentencing

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Parliamentary proceeding

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520 c169-86

Session

2010-12

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Ministry of Justice

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House of Commons chamber

Breaking the cycle: Effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Edward Leigh | 520 c176 (Link to this contribution) I notice that my Conservative Secretary of State says: ““Prison cannot continue to be simply an expe...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c176 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the last part of the question is obviously yes. Burglars should usually go to prison—n...

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Paul Goggins | 520 c177 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, in Health questions, the Health Secretary confirmed that he has been working with the Justi...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c177 (Link to this contribution) This is about both our budgets, so I had better not pre-empt my discussions with my right hon. Frien...

Alun Michael | 520 c176 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the Justice Secretary intends to build on the success of the youth offending teams...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c176 (Link to this contribution) The answer is yes. One thing on which I totally agree with the right hon. Gentleman is that we have ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c177 (Link to this contribution) I will not go into another precise estimate, but we need to reduce the number of women in prison. Th...

Tom Brake | 520 c177 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State confirm by how much he expects the number of vulnerable women and women w...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that the right hon. Gentleman does not differ in principle. I do not think that Opposi...

Keith Vaz | 520 c177 (Link to this contribution) I have no quarrel with the vision set out by the Secretary of State for Justice. It is in keeping wi...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) Of course I acknowledge that crime fell during that period, as it did throughout most of the western...

Philip Davies | 520 c175 (Link to this contribution) Last year, 3,000 burglars and 4,500 violent criminals with 15 or more previous convictions were not ...

Speaker | 520 c174 (Link to this contribution) Order. I would love to try to get everyone in, but I appeal to right hon. and hon. Members to help m...

Jack Straw | 520 c174 (Link to this contribution) Why is the Secretary of State so unwilling even to utter the words that would acknowledge that, in t...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c174 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. A lot of people in all three parties welcome this sh...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c176 (Link to this contribution) The number of foreign prisoners in our prisons roughly doubled in the past 10 years, during the peri...

Claire O'Neill | 520 c175 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State talk specifically about the issue of foreign offenders in the prison sys...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c175 (Link to this contribution) The budget for the Prison Service and the probation service in my Department increased by roughly 50...

Lord Blunkett | 520 c175 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Secretary of State will remember that, back in 2001, there was something called the Hall...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c175 (Link to this contribution) A court has to look at the nature of the offence and the individual offender and give the right sent...

Speaker | 520 c172 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am loth to interrupt the shadow Secretary of State, but he is getting towards the point whe...

Speaker | 520 c173 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to be corny about it, but in this context I should surely be able to appeal from now o...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I was about to congratulate the Opposition spokesman on his statesman-like performance in a difficul...

Speaker | 520 c174 (Link to this contribution) Order. Thirty-seven years of service in the House should make the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon...

Lord Beith | 520 c174 (Link to this contribution) I remind the Lord Chancellor that Members from all three parties on the Justice Committee unanimousl...

Clive Efford | 520 c183 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest that the Secretary of State visit, as I did recently, the Isis centre at Belmarsh pris...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c182 (Link to this contribution) Yes. It is sometimes difficult to debate law and order in this country. Occasionally, I have to list...

Paul Uppal | 520 c183 (Link to this contribution) In September, I met an ex-prisoner who told me that a continual stream of custodial sentences was br...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c183 (Link to this contribution) I think I can, although I do not think we need to put it in statute. I would be utterly astonished i...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c182 (Link to this contribution) I have no anecdotal recollection of anybody who has stabbed somebody not going to prison. Actually, ...

Therese Coffey | 520 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome my right hon. and learned Friend's announcement that those who commit a crime us...

Kevin Brennan | 520 c182 (Link to this contribution) Instead of giving prisoners the vote, why does the Secretary of State not incorporate the withdrawal...

Speaker | 520 c182 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind the Secretary of State that I am always keen to hear his answers? I know that hi...

Priti Patel | 520 c182 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State reassure my constituents and guarantee that dangerous criminals, such as...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c182 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was a Minister in the last Government for—I think—the last five years. For five y...

Paul Maynard | 520 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on avoiding the siren calls of populism that I have been so di...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c184 (Link to this contribution) With great respect, I am obviously being particularly obscure today, because I agree with the hon. G...

Steve McCabe | 520 c184 (Link to this contribution) Surely the courts must always determine when a custodial sentence is required. The public will not u...

Jack Straw | 520 c183 (Link to this contribution) It worked.

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c183 (Link to this contribution) We would like to give professionals every possible encouragement to follow that advice. People who a...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c184 (Link to this contribution) I agree with honesty in sentencing—I have always supported that idea—and we will certainly be addres...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) We are not just going to let IPP prisoners out—any of them. Release will be by the Parole Board. The...

Fiona O'Donnell | 520 c183 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by telling the Secretary of State that my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Wavertr...

Rob Wilson | 520 c186 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend will know that education is key to rehabilitation in prisons. What ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c186 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that they will make any difference, really—[Interruption.] No, do not start misquotin...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c186 (Link to this contribution) We will of course continue to try to improve the level of education available to people, particularl...

Lord Mann | 520 c185 (Link to this contribution) Bassetlaw has the largest drug treatment programme in the country by far. We have reduced crime furt...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c185 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend entirely. We should give those who have the backbone to go straight, wit...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c186 (Link to this contribution) Last year, more than 20,000 offenders with 15 or more previous convictions or cautions, and more tha...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) One day I will convert the hon. Gentleman. With great respect, I think that he has been a great lead...

Anna Soubry | 520 c178 (Link to this contribution) The majority of the people I represented who were burglars were addicted to drugs or alcohol. Does t...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c178 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. She has long experience, and much more recent experience than ...

Kerry McCarthy | 520 c178 (Link to this contribution) Following on from the previous question, will the Secretary of State confirm that he will lobby for ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c178 (Link to this contribution) I will. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary takes the lead in the Government in tackling drug pr...

Rehman Chishti | 520 c179 (Link to this contribution) As someone who both prosecuted and defended in criminal courts before coming to this place, I wish t...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think the possession of knives is a scourge on society, particularly when it is associated wi...

Julian Huppert | 520 c178 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the reference to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 in the Green Paper ““Breaking th...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c179 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that we are proposing to reform that matter. We are consulting on it, so I look forwar...

Chuka Umunna | 520 c179 (Link to this contribution) HMP Brixton is in my constituency, and 80% of the prisoners there are on short-term sentences of les...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c179 (Link to this contribution) I realise the difficulties of a prison such a Brixton, with such a high proportion of its population...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c180 (Link to this contribution) The answer to that is yes, I will. Restorative justice is proving to be remarkably successful, but I...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 520 c180 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's road-to-Damascus conversion to rehabilitation. I made a note of s...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c180 (Link to this contribution) I shall have a word with my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General, because that is a pe...

Robert Buckland | 520 c180 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the proposal in the Green Paper to expand the principle of restorative justice, but will m...

David Crausby | 520 c180 (Link to this contribution) Earlier this year in my constituency, a driver who had been drinking crashed into a group of teenage...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c181 (Link to this contribution) I realise that the hon. Lady is a new Member of the House—[Interruption.] If the Labour party cannot...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c181 (Link to this contribution) It costs about £170,000 a year to keep somebody in a young offenders institution. Those who think th...

Luciana Berger | 520 c181 (Link to this contribution) Further to the questions asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wythenshawe and Sale East (Pau...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c181 (Link to this contribution) I make the point again: the hon. Lady does not appear to disagree with any of those proposals, but t...

Mark Reckless | 520 c181 (Link to this contribution) The secure training centre in my constituency protects the community when young people are locked up...

Sadiq Khan | 520 c171-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement on sentencing policy. The Ministry...

David Nuttall | 520 c184 (Link to this contribution) Further to the reply that the Secretary of State gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk Coast...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 520 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement. On 12 May, we said in our programme f...

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