division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [17th Allotted Day] &#8212; Housing Benefit and Supported Housing &#8212; Prisons and Probation
motion: <p class="" pid="d.333.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="d.333.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House believes UK prisons are in crisis; notes the increasingly high rates of violence, self-harm and drug use in prisons, and the resulting pressure on the NHS; further notes that the last report by the outgoing Chief Inspector of Prisons warned that outcomes across the prison estate were the worst for ten years; believes that no prison staff should have to go to work facing a threat to their safety; notes with concern the decision of the Scottish Government, announced in its recent draft Scottish Budget for 2016-17, to reduce funding for the Scottish Prison Service by almost &#163;40 million in cash terms; is appalled by the disturbing allegations of violence at Medway Secure Training Centre; regrets the Government&#8217;s inadequate response to the Harris Review and to mental health in prisons; is concerned that re-offending rates are so high; believes the Government lets down victims of crime by failing to enshrine their rights in law; regrets the Government&#8217;s reckless privatisation of the probation service and the job losses in community rehabilitation companies; and calls on the Government to put all G4S-run prisons, STCs and detention centres into special measures, to immediately review the implementation of Transforming Rehabilitation and to publish the Memorandum of Understanding on Judicial Cooperation with Saudi Arabia.</p>
  
  <p pid="d.378.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put forthwith</i>, That the Question be now put.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="d.378.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">Question agreed to.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="d.378.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Main Question accordingly put.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="d.378.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="d.378.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 186, Noes 278.</p>