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Prison Reform (No. 3)

EDM number 1068 in 2001-02, proposed by Rudi Vis on 25/03/2002.

That this House notes with concern that the number of men, women and children in prison has reached a record of 70,000; and calls on the Government to implement the five-point programme proposed by the Howard League for Penal Reform, including using executive release powers for prisoners serving less than three months, recommending to the courts that women and children should only be sentenced to prison in exceptional circumstances for serious and violent offences, urging sentencers to reduce sentence lengths for all but the most serious offenders, introducing legislation to put a statutory limit on the numbers that prisons can hold and implementing the Prison Governors' Association proposal to remove from magistrates their power to send people to prison for short periods.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Rudi Vis25/03/2002Finchley & Golders GreenLabourProposed
Bob Russell26/03/2002ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley26/03/2002Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer03/04/2002KeighleyLabourSigned
Adam Price10/04/2002Carmarthen East & DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Alan Meale10/04/2002MansfieldLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn10/04/2002Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton11/04/2002GowerLabourSigned
Sue Doughty15/04/2002GuildfordLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson15/04/2002Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson16/04/2002Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham16/04/2002Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Patsy Calton17/04/2002CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington17/04/2002Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Tony Worthington17/04/2002Clydebank & MilngavieLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt17/04/2002Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Menzies Campbell18/04/2002Fife North EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Wood22/04/2002Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Frank Cook23/04/2002Stockton NorthLabourSigned
John Austin23/04/2002Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Iain Coleman24/04/2002Hammersmith & FulhamLabourSigned
Brian Cotter24/04/2002Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Sawford25/04/2002KetteringLabourSigned
Barry Sheerman25/04/2002HuddersfieldLabour Co-operativeSigned
Karen Buck25/04/2002Regent's Park and Kensington NorthLabourSigned
Matthew Taylor25/04/2002Truro & St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham30/04/2002Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
David Stewart01/05/2002Inverness East, Nairn and LochaberLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell21/05/2002Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
George Mudie22/05/2002Leeds EastLabourSigned
Simon Hughes18/06/2002North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell02/07/2002Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Roger Berry24/09/2002KingswoodLabourSigned
John Grogan07/11/2002SelbyLabourSigned

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