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HANSARD Prison CapacityI draw Members’ attention to my role as co-chair of the justice unions parliamentary group. In all honesty, using police cells and custody suites to house prisoners for any…30 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesI will return to that later, but because the right hon. Gentleman has raised the point, I will engage with it now as well. There is a residential unit in planning for one area of…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I am honoured that Members from across parties are pointing out the inconsistency that we are experiencing in Wales.…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesWe will look at areas where there has been a little moving ahead on other aspects of the courts that have been proposed in Wales. In that respect, I refer to a groundbreaking new…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesI beg to move, That this House has considered the potential merits of the devolution of justice to Wales. Diolch yn fawr iawn, Cadeirydd—thank you very much, Mr Vickers; it is an…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesI am grateful that the Minister has committed to work with me and others on the disaggregation of data, because I firmly believe that we should all operate on an evidence base,…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesWith respect, there are a number of prisons close to the right hon. Gentleman’s constituency. I was emphasising that women are at present going to prisons in Gloucestershire or…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesWith respect, the right hon. Gentleman is looking at the convenient location of prisons, rather than at justice outcomes, which is what I hope we look for in our scrutiny. It is…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesThank you, Mr Vickers. I am drawing to a close. We have data for Wales. Black imprisonment rates are shocking. The Welsh Affairs Committee undertook a 2019 inquiry on the prison…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesWhere does the right hon. Gentleman think our priorities should lie—the business models of law firms or justice for people living in the communities of Wales?29 Nov 2022HANSARDDevolution of Justice: WalesAgain, I will return to that. This is not just a matter of serving the needs of Wales. Sending thousands of prisoners miles away from home—men or women—does not serve the vast…29 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateMy local authority Cyngor Gwynedd is proud to work with groups such as Pobl i Bobl, Croeso Menai and Cefn to welcome refugees, but they cannot operate effectively at a time of…28 Nov 2022HANSARDCost of Living: Support for HouseholdsI too welcome the Secretary of State to his place. I am sure that he will join me in expressing llongyfarchiadau—congratulations—to the Wales football team on their performance.…23 Nov 2022HANSARDScottish Referendum Legislation: Supreme Court DecisionThe Tryweryn vote in 1957 taught people in Wales that Welsh MPs can always be overridden by the structural tyranny of the majority here in Westminster. The First Minister of…23 Nov 2022HANSARDCost of Living: Support for HouseholdsToday of all days, we must look forward to how the democracy of these isles will best serve our people, particularly the people of Wales. In June, I asked the Deputy Prime…23 Nov 2022HANSARDImprisonment Rates14. What recent estimate he has made of imprisonment rates.22 Nov 2022HANSARDImprisonment RatesThese data are significant. Cardiff University has uncovered the fact that courts in Wales imprison more people per head of population than England, and I am sure the Minister…22 Nov 2022HANSARDNewport Wafer FabDuring a recent session of the BEIS Committee’s inquiry into the UK semiconductor industry, a representative from Nexperia indicated that there is space at Newport Wafer Fab for…21 Nov 2022HANSARDMigrationDiolch yn fawr iawn, Llefarydd. The Home Office is spending millions on the Rwanda scheme, on the new border scheme with France and on hotel bills, but I am told by a council with…16 Nov 2022HANSARD Tax Reform CommissionI beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish a commission to assess the differential impact of the tax system in the UK on different groups of people; to…15 Nov 2022