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European Union Documents: Syria (EU Restrictive Measures) (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: I am pleased that we are having this debate and hope that at the meeting in Brussels the Government will not use their veto and lead us into the danger of supplying arms to Syria. For some time now the Foreign Office has been chatting quite openly about the possibility of supplying arms. Indeed, in a letter to me of 22 April the Minister stated: “As things stand today, there is going...

European Union Documents: Syria (EU Restrictive Measures) (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: In the strategy that the Government appear to be adopting in contemplating giving arms supplies to one opposition group, are we not in danger of fuelling a civil war within a civil war? The only solution is a political one involving all countries, including Iran.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Judicial Review (Reforms) (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: How can the Minister possibly claim that these changes are not damaging access to justice, when she knows full well that by reducing the possibility of taking cases to judicial review, public authorities and the Executive cannot be held to account by ordinary citizens? Why is she destroying what is so important in our justice system in this country?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: Will the Secretary of State assure the House that he and the Government have no plans to withdraw from the European convention on human rights?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Syria (20 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: The Foreign Secretary gave a rather disappointing answer to the last question. Clearly, if the humanitarian crisis and all the killing are to end, there must be a political solution; and a political solution must involve all the countries, all of which have complex demands and aims, including Iran. May I ask the Foreign Secretary to be much more specific? What contact is he having with the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Peru (20 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people from Peru visited the UK in each of the last three years; how many visa applications from that country were refused; and whether she has given consideration to ending the existing visa requirement between the UK and Peru.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: British Indian Ocean Territory (20 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on which occasions the British Indian Ocean Territories administration has intervened or apprehended vessels under suspicion of illegal fishing in the last year.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Ilois: Resettlement (20 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he will make an announcement on the future of the Chagos Islands and the future resettlement of the islanders.

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: My hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) and I raised the question of the work capability interviews being undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions with people with mental health conditions. I do not think that the Minister was in the Chamber at the time, but we suggested that it would be better for the DWP to have access to those people’s medical reports rather...

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: Perhaps my hon. Friend can help me. I hope that the taskforce will also look at issues surrounding the voluntary sector and its excellent work within the mental health service, as well as the dangerous tendency of franchising out mental health services to the private sector by some mental health trusts that do it for profit rather than care.

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: I compliment my friend on an excellent speech. Does he agree that the problem of representation of people both in initial assessments and when they are placed in long-stay mental health institutions often means that many poorer young black men never get any representation whatever and end up being completely institutionalised as a result, leading to those ludicrously higher statistics for...

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: Like all the other Members who have spoken, I welcome the debate. It is important for us to have it, and I hope that it will become an annual event. It is a way of reducing the stigma that is attached to mental illness, increasing understanding of it, and also, quite correctly, holding the Government to account on how their policies develop. There is still an enormous amount of discrimination...

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: I agree. The bureaucracy involved and the skewing of the contract culture frequently means voluntary organisations that have a tradition of the voluntary provision of services—often in an effective and innovative way, as I have described—are debarred by the contracting process. Instead, very large private sector medical companies come in to privatise those services and run them in...

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: Absolutely, which is why I referred in my opening remarks to the strategy adopted by my local authority. It has taken the issue very seriously, and has developed a strategy that involves signposting, understanding, support for care in the community and a close relationship with the mental health trust locally. I suspect many local authorities are not particularly well geared up for that role,...

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right in what he says. Bouncing back from these things and then getting on in education or any career is very important. I hope that debates such as this one and the remarks made by hon. Members who have been through mental health problems and depression begin to help give a greater understanding in the much wider community. I wish to make only a couple more...

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Does he think it would be better if, instead of calling people with mental health conditions in for an interview, Atos simply sought medical reports on them and then considered setting up an interview with a suitably qualified examiner? Would that not be better than the production line that Atos operates at the moment?