Extract from
Westminster Hall debate on Psychoactive Substances
(Delyn) (Lab):...That
is the framework of the questions that I want the Minister to
address. I will now touch briefly on some specific issues. Spice
and other new psychoactive substances have been manufactured in
China and India and shipped to Europe by people
who wish to make a profit out of them. Before the Act, online
retailers, high street shops and non-retail sources, such as
friends of drug dealers, were used for that...
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Commons Point
of Order
(West
Dunbartonshire) (SNP): On a point of order, Mr Speaker.
Two hundred days have passed since my constituent Jagtar Singh
Johal was held in India without charge, with accusations of
torture and with trial by media. I am grateful to Ministers who
have engaged with me so far in holding the Indian authorities to
account. Nevertheless, I have now written to the Prime Minister
twice, without formal response other than a holding response from
their office. Will you assure me that all Ministers of State take
their responsibilities seriously in responding fully to a
constituency Member of the House of Commons on a critical matter
involving a constituent—a UK citizen, and a true son of the Rock
of Dumbarton—who has made accusations of torture against a close
ally?
Mr Speaker: I hope that these matters are always
treated with the utmost seriousness, and that responses to
parliamentary colleagues are both timely and substantive. I say
to the hon. Gentleman, without fear of contradiction, that that
notion of a timely and substantive response should apply both in
relation to parliamentary answers to parliamentary questions and
in relation to correspondence. I was not familiar with all the
details of this matter, although the hon. Gentleman has apprised
me of some of them, but it is of course important that these
matters are addressed fully.
