Mentions:
1: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) Since 1983, 84 countries have decriminalised consensual same-sex relations, and 65 have recognised marriage - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) Our thoughts are with them, and we wish them well for the future, with happiness in their marriage and - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) The shadow Minister is talking about the introduction of same-sex marriage, and I want to emphasise that - Speech Link
4: Olivia Bailey (Lab - Reading West and Mid Berkshire) We are funding global LGBT+ partnerships, and we will be proudly hosting the 2027 European IDAHOT forum - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, we welcome the valuable learning that is emerging from the five Better Start partnerships and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) So why have the Government done nothing to condemn and educate about, if not prohibit, cousin marriage - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) nutrition, social and emotional development, and speech, language and communication skills. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) family hubs, and investing in provision, services and information. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) It has embedded trust with Governments, local institutions, civil society, and particularly in fragile - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sugg (Con - Life peer) Development partnerships that support women peacebuilders, protect civil society space and strengthen - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) as FGM, child marriage and violence against women. - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) “reinvigorate alliances and forge new partnerships”? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Southgate and Wood Green) The civil war is leaving many children traumatised, uprooted from their communities and cut off from - Speech Link
2: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) The higher education partnerships are so crucial, but so are the school-to-school partnerships and the - Speech Link
3: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) She is less likely to be subject to child marriage, and to experience harmful practices and unwanted - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) Fewer girls are attending school, increasing risks of child marriage, FGM and sexual exploitation. - Speech Link
2: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) priorities must include a greater reliance on locally led development and local civil society organisations.In - Speech Link
3: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) the public, and how transparent and granular will it be? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) This is working in Ghana and in Rwanda, and we have done some good work on this in Ethiopia and Kenya - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the international covenant on civil and political rights, which both clearly outline:“No one shall be - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) That is what happens when laws are enforced, when civil society is empowered and when justice is made - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I and my friend and colleague the hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) I declare my interest both as a divorce lawyer and as a member of the Marriage Foundation. - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) of marriage without a prenup—because who knows what might happen and what other people might have claims—it - Speech Link
3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) Consulting on financial provision alongside cohabitation will bring consistency and fairness across marriage - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) The Minister is correct when she says that the civil service must be able to recruit the brightest and - Speech Link
2: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) Does the Minister agree that having different roles and different levels of positions within the civil - Speech Link
3: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Friend’s constituency, we met senior civil servants there, and we look forward to returning again in - Speech Link
4: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) defence sector, which includes the majority of the civil service, between July 2024 and August 2025. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Snowden (Con - Fylde) The Minister was earlier asked about the ever-growing size of the civil service and the Cabinet Office - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Longfield (Lab - Life peer) protocols and partnerships that mean that managed moves operate well, the lack of appropriate guard-rails - Speech Link
2: None partnerships between parents, schools and local authorities. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Spielman (Con - Life peer) capable of holding down a job and, in the longer term, being capable of sustaining a marriage or stable - Speech Link
4: Lord Gove (Con - Life peer) Having been in the department and worked with the outstanding civil servants there, I know just how hard-pressed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) communities on the ground, civil society and religious group engagement is central to the protection - Speech Link
2: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) , civil society and multilateral institutions to find common ground and deliver real change.Producing - Speech Link
3: John Glen (Con - Salisbury) When we talk about matters such as national security and stability, trade and economic partnerships, - Speech Link