Christopher Fraser

The Ministry of Justice is spending £4 million installing vending machines in prisons to allow prisoners access to methadone, through the iris or fingerprint system. Why are the Government spending more on prisoners' drug habits than on abstinence-based rehabilitation?

— from debate entitled “Topical Questions”

The three speeches/headings immediately before

  1. 1 earlier: Jack Straw

    I am living proof that the office has not been abolished. As for challenging Lord Irvine's account, I was abroad at the time.

  2. 2 earlier: Gordon Prentice

    Derry Irvine has spoken out for the first time about the abolition of the ancient office of Lord Chancellor and how it was done without consultation or proper appreciation of the consequences. Would the latest Lord Chancellor challenge Lord Irvine's account in any way?

  3. 3 earlier: Maria Eagle

    I can give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. Housing previous offenders is one of the pathways to reducing reoffending that we are taking action to deal with. That is not to say that every prisoner who comes out will find settled and secured housing, as that case illustrates, but 86 per cent. do.

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