division_name: Prison Conditions
motion: <p>
   I beg to move,
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    That this House notes with concern the comments of the Director General of the Prison Service, in which he criticised intolerable conditions and referred to a number of prisons as 'hell holes', and the Reports of the Chief Inspector of Prisons which described appalling conditions at certain prisons; and calls on the Government to take urgent action to improve conditions in Her Majesty's Prisons, in order to enable them better to fulfil their role of protecting the public.
  <p>
   I beg to move, To leave out from "House" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:
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    "supports the policy of Her Majesty's Government to make prisons work better to reduce reoffending and thus cut crime; welcomes the improved investment in the Service, and the improved performance <p>Question put,  That the original words stand part of the Question:--
  <p>The House divided:  Ayes 159, Noes 248.
   