| That this House views with great concern the rise in gun crime and domestic burglary, the growing demoralisation of the police, the increasing sense of helplessness of the honest citizen and the apparent inability of the Government to provide a coherent, long-term strategy to resolve these problems; and deprecates the Home Secretary's resort to short-term, irrelevant and illiberal measures to conceal this failure.
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| As Amendments to Mr Iain Duncan Smith's proposed Motion (The Home Secretary's Responsibility for the Criminal Justice System):
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| The Prime Minister
Mr Secretary Prescott
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mr Robin Cook
Mr Secretary Blunkett
Yvette Cooper
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| Line 1, leave out from `House' to end and add `welcomes the steps the Government has taken and continues to take to reform all aspects of law enforcement including increasing police numbers to record levels and the 6.1 per cent. increase in police funding for 2003-04; further welcomes the steps the Government is taking to modernise the criminal justice system through the coherent long-term strategies and the introduction of the Criminal Justice Bill; notes that for the last five years crime rates have fallen by 27 per cent. according to the British Crime Survey, that burglary has reduced by 39 per cent. since 1997 and that the chances of becoming a victim of crime are as low as at any time in the last 20 years; and particularly supports the decisive action being taken by the Government to tackle street crime and the rise in gun-related crime.'.
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| Mr Charles Kennedy
Mr A. J. Beith
Simon Hughes
Mr David Heath
Annette Brooke
Mr Andrew Stunell
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| Line 1, leave out from `House' to end and add `views with great concern the rise in gun crime and the continuing unacceptably high levels of crime, particularly violent crime, and unacceptably low clear-up rates; regrets the failure of successive Governments to have made greater progress in reducing crime and dealing with the causes of crime; and deprecates the confused messages from Government and regularly ill-thought out legislative responses which together neither reduce fear of crime nor add to public confidence in the criminal justice system.'.
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| | DRUGS POLICY
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| Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Oliver Letwin
Mr Dominic Grieve
Mr James Paice
Mr Humfrey Malins
Mr Nick Hawkins
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| That this House recognises the fundamental importance of the link between hard drugs and crime; and believes that the only means by which an effective onslaught on the hard drugs culture can be made is through mandatory intensive treatment and rehabilitation for young heroin and cocaine addicts.
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| As Amendments to Mr Iain Duncan Smith's proposed Motion (Drugs Policy):
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| The Prime Minister
Mr Secretary Prescott
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mr Robin Cook
Mr Secretary Blunkett
Mr Secretary Milburn
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| Line 1, leave out from `House' to end and add `recognises that focusing on Class A drugs, educating young people about the dangers of all drugs, preventing drug misuse, combating the dealers, reducing availability and treating addicts are all essential in tackling drugs; and welcomes the Government's updated Drug Strategy and the 44 per cent. increase in planned expenditure on combating drugs, from £1.026 billion in the current financial year to nearly £1.5 billion in the year starting April 2005.'.
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| Mr Charles Kennedy
Mr A. J. Beith
Simon Hughes
Mr David Heath
Annette Brooke
Mr Andrew Stunell
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| Line 2, leave out from `crime' to end and add `recognises the critical importance of focusing the health and law enforcement services on Class A drugs, educating people about the dangers of all drugs, targeting all drug dealers, preventing drug addiction and abuse and providing easily available and effective treatment for drug addiction; and calls on the Government to provide speedily available treatment for all those suffering from drug addiction throughout the country as a matter of the highest priority.'.
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| The selection of the matters to be debated this day has been made by the Leader of the Opposition (Standing Order No. 14(2)).
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| Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
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| + 2 | NATIONAL LOTTERY [No debate]
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| Secretary Tessa Jowell
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| That the draft National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Increase of Endowment) Order 2003, which was laid before this House on 11th December, be approved.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
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| 3 | TRANSPORT [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Mr John McWilliam, on behalf of the Committee of Selection
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| That Helen Jackson be discharged from the Transport Committee and Ian Lucas be added to the Committee.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| At the end of the sitting
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| 4 | ADJOURNMENT
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| Proposed subject: Transport infrastructure in East Kent (Dr Stephen Ladyman).
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| Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).
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