Speeches by Farnsworth.

“I do not know whether you would agree with me, but I think that in the circumstances where a sentence requires somebody to tackle the core reason for their offending and what is behind it, that is quite a tough sentence in my view. It is quite onerous on somebody, so it is not the easy option for them, is my view. I do…”

“That is helpful, thank you. Last week we also heard about community sentence treatment requirements, orders that were dual, so alcohol, mental health, and drugs, that they are quite popular in prisons because often prisoners will have a dual diagnosis. Does the review recognise that assertion that they are quite popula…”

“Shall I move on to the electronic tagging?”

“I think we have votes soon but—”

“I am behind the times, I do apologise. We will move on to electronic monitoring tags, then. The suggestion of expanding the use of electric monitoring tags is clearly something that has been talked about quite a lot. Do you think it is realistic to expand the use given Serco’s history of poor performance in recent year…”

“How will the data be collected from electronic tagging in real time?”

“There have been some concerns raised about using tagging for domestic violence cases, particularly in circumstances where we hear about tags running out of power and offenders failing to maintain contact with the tagging side of things. With a domestic violence case, that gives a little bit of concern about safety for …”

“One last question from me, but moving away from tagging and on to women’s centres. What engagement did you have with the Women’s Justice Board when developing the recommendation to expand women’s centres?”

“Did the review identify any challenges regarding the competitive tendering process for specialist services for women?”

“Given that the Justice Committee sits on Tuesday afternoons, we would request that consideration be given to Wednesday 25 June for the Estimates debate. There are serious challenges facing the criminal justice system. The backlog in the Crown Court is in excess of 70,000 cases, and the remand and prison populations are…”

“Brilliant. That sounds really interesting. The evaluation from the MOJ and our written evidence identified some limitations on community sentence treatments when they are not person-centred, or are not used consistently, or there are delays in starting the treatment. What is NHS England doing to mitigate those challeng…”

“I would like to move away from prisons a little and talk about community sentence treatment requirements as an alternative, whether that be drug rehabilitation requirements, alcohol treatment requirements, or mental health treatment requirements. As a former prosecutor seeing the same defendants back in court time and …”

“Obviously, you are talking about screening and opportunities for good practice in screening, but can I ask about when somebody needs treatment outside the prison estate? We were informed of a lady who was supposed to be going into hospital for an investigation for cancer, and she was not able to go. First, the preparat…”

“I am the Member of Parliament for Amber Valley, formerly a solicitor in the Crown Prosecution Service and my interests are as declared on the register.”

“I would like to move away from prisons a little and talk about community sentence treatment requirements as an alternative, whether that be drug rehabilitation requirements, alcohol treatment requirements, or mental health treatment requirements. As a former prosecutor seeing the same defendants back in court time and …”

“I am the Member of Parliament for Amber Valley, formerly a solicitor in the Crown Prosecution Service and my interests are as declared on the register.”

“Obviously, you are talking about screening and opportunities for good practice in screening, but can I ask about when somebody needs treatment outside the prison estate? We were informed of a lady who was supposed to be going into hospital for an investigation for cancer, and she was not able to go. First, the preparat…”

“Brilliant. That sounds really interesting. The evaluation from the MOJ and our written evidence identified some limitations on community sentence treatments when they are not person-centred, or are not used consistently, or there are delays in starting the treatment. What is NHS England doing to mitigate those challeng…”

“My constituents are people of common sense, and they tell me that they do not think millionaires should get the winter fuel allowance, but they did feel that the threshold was too low, so they will no doubt welcome today’s announcement. However, after 14 years of being let down by the Conservatives, they are wary of Go…”

“I thank the hon. Member for South Devon (Caroline Voaden) for securing this most important of debates. Dementia care is a subject incredibly close to my heart and that of many of my Amber Valley constituents who write to me. Any hon. Members who were present when I made my maiden speech may recall my speaking about my …”