House of Commons debates
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice
The Secretary of State was asked—
- Integrated Offender Management Framework (10 speeches)
What steps he plans to take to ensure the future effectiveness of the integrated offender management framework through the funding of key partners.
- No Win, No Fee Agreements (6 speeches)
What recent progress he has made on changes to the arrangements for no win, no fee agreements.
- Police and Crime Commissioners (Victims’ Services) (13 speeches)
What assessment he has made of the effect on victims’ services of the work of police and crime commissioners.
- Prisons (Foreign Nationals) (8 speeches)
What steps he plans to take to reduce the number of foreign nationals in prisons.
- Prison Population (10 speeches)
What steps he plans to take to reduce the size of the prison population.
- Courts (Applied Language Solutions) (8 speeches)
What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the language services for courts provided by Applied Language Solutions.
- Youth Offending Teams (4 speeches)
How many staff posts have been abolished in youth offending teams in the last 12 months.
- Probation Service (Staffing) (4 speeches)
What assessment he has made of the adequacy of staffing levels in the probation service.
- Chancel Repair Liability (4 speeches)
What assessment he has made of the need to review the law on chancel repair liability; and if he will make a statement.
- Court Proceedings (Televising) (6 speeches)
What progress he has made on televising court proceedings.
- Bill of Rights Commission (8 speeches)
What recent assessment he has made of the work of the commission on a Bill of Rights; and if he will make a statement.
- Prisons (Female Domestic Violence Victims) (4 speeches)
What estimate he has made of the number of women in prison who have been victims of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement.
- Victims Commissioner (4 speeches)
What plans he has for the future of the role of the victims commissioner; and if he will make a statement.
- Coroners (6 speeches)
What recent representations he has received on coroners.
- Sentencing Policy (4 speeches)
If he will take steps to ensure that time served in prison by a prisoner reflects the sentence handed down to that prisoner by the court.
- Homeowners (Protection) (4 speeches)
What steps he plans to take to ensure that home owners have the right to protect their property from intruders.
- Prison Officers (Fitness Tests) (4 speeches)
If he will assess the effectiveness of the fitness tests that prisoner officers are required to take.
- Topical Questions (48 speeches)
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
- Afghanistan (NATO Strategy) (52 speeches)
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the change in NATO’s strategy in Afghanistan.
- Points of Order (6 speeches)
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday the Secretary of State for Transport made a written statement of immense importance to the blind, the partially sighted and the disabled, in which he...
- Regulation of Signage and Ticketing Technology (Publicly-available Car Parks) (1 speech)
Motion for leave to bring in a Bill ( Standing Order No. 23)
- Health (33 speeches)
One of my constituents, Mrs Collette Pridmore has three children, one of whom—her son, Jacob— suffers from a rare lung disease. Jacob is just eight years old. When Collette got in...
- General Matters (52 speeches, 2 annotations)
I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for granting this debate. I wish the Deputy Leader of the House very well in his new post, and I hope that will be able to understand what...
- Petition — Wheel Clamping (1 speech)
I would like to present a petition on behalf of more than 530 residents of Barrowford and many others from the surrounding parts of Pendle. The wheel clamping of vehicles on the side street of...
- Community Funding (Infrastructure Projects) (6 speeches)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mr Evennett.)