Speeches by Farnsworth.

“There are many reasons why this debate is important. Obviously, access to healthcare is particularly important throughout the country, but there is also a social equity situation here, because those that can afford to pay for dentistry will get dental care, and there is a whole tranche of society for whom that will not…”

“I thank the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and his team for securing this important debate. I know that he has long been a champion of Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Members on both sides of the House have loudly supported the Ukrainian cause and have made excellent contribu…”

“Hello, I am Linsey Farnsworth, Member of Parliament for Amber Valley. I am a non-practising solicitor formerly of the Crown Prosecution Service. I am a member of various trade unions and I am the mission delivery champion nationally for the safer streets mission.”

“That is really interesting. Thank you. The availability on the outside and the higher drug use on the outside is impacting prison use. Do you think that that is happening generally across the country or is there a specific problem locally, close to prisons? Are the organised crime groups, for example, targeting specifi…”

“I will switch now to drugs strategy, because you started to touch on that. I would be interested to hear what your drugs strategy is. It is probably detailed, but maybe you could provide a summary of your drugs strategy in each of the three settings that you are in. Is there anything that you are really proud of, in te…”

“In terms of use of drugs in prisons, Babafemi, you have prisoners serving long sentences, and, Rob, you have people coming and going. I would be interested to hear whether you think there are any trends with longer-serving prisoners and the use of drugs or the desire and demand for drugs. Likewise, how does it model in…”

“I was really interested in what you were saying about the demand for drugs and the ingress of drugs having increased, as well as the availability. We have heard loud and clear from a number of witnesses, both today and previously, that a lack of purposeful work or being stuck in the cells for too long, for various reas…”

“I will switch now to drugs strategy, because you started to touch on that. I would be interested to hear what your drugs strategy is. It is probably detailed, but maybe you could provide a summary of your drugs strategy in each of the three settings that you are in. Is there anything that you are really proud of, in te…”

“In terms of use of drugs in prisons, Babafemi, you have prisoners serving long sentences, and, Rob, you have people coming and going. I would be interested to hear whether you think there are any trends with longer-serving prisoners and the use of drugs or the desire and demand for drugs. Likewise, how does it model in…”

“I was really interested in what you were saying about the demand for drugs and the ingress of drugs having increased, as well as the availability. We have heard loud and clear from a number of witnesses, both today and previously, that a lack of purposeful work or being stuck in the cells for too long, for various reas…”

“Hello, I am Linsey Farnsworth, Member of Parliament for Amber Valley. I am a non-practising solicitor formerly of the Crown Prosecution Service. I am a member of various trade unions and I am the mission delivery champion nationally for the safer streets mission.”

“That is really interesting. Thank you. The availability on the outside and the higher drug use on the outside is impacting prison use. Do you think that that is happening generally across the country or is there a specific problem locally, close to prisons? Are the organised crime groups, for example, targeting specifi…”

“T8. The RAC recently reported that potholes in Derbyshire are the worst in the country, but rather than welcoming over £75 million of funding for the east midlands, the Conservatives at Derbyshire county council claim that this is not new money and that it is bound up in red tape. Does the Minister agree that these are…”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to bring forward this debate. I know that the Labour Government have inherited a broken system of special educational needs and disabilities provision—broken by 14 years of Tory under-investment, mismanagement and chaos. Even knowing this, I was shocked by the number of Amber Valley pa…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his intervention on a matter that I know is close to his heart. He is absolutely right. The delays are a real concern, and diagnosis at an early stage is important, but that is not what we are seeing in Derbyshire. That is the worry.”

“I agree that we need more consistency. One of the concerns in the Ofsted report just for Derbyshire was that there is no consistency, because of the lack of a clearly defined joint strategy. The support is described by parents as a postcode lottery—we have that problem just within Derbyshire itself. Teachers are workin…”

“I agree. Crisis—a word that I have already used in this debate—is what we are facing right across the country. I am very concerned about that. In Derbyshire we face that very challenge, as well as all the additional challenges of the systemic problems in the county council. As high as the legal costs for families can b…”

“I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The Government need to grip this issue across the country. Unfortunately, we understand his plight only too well in Derbyshire. Parents and carers talk about barriers at every stage of the process and about how they are “ignored” by an “unresponsive” council. A big part of our ch…”

“I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. I think that every Derbyshire MP will testify to the same thing: that phones are not answered and emails go un-responded to. It is not sustainable for this to be the status quo. So many people in Amber Valley wanted to talk to me about their experience. What was planned as a smal…”

“First, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) for securing this important and timely debate. I echo his comments about our hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) for his work championing our coalfield communities, which, until this Government were elected, had be…”