Mentions:
1: Nadia Whittome (Lab - Nottingham East) Many now live in fear of being terrorised out of public life, whether through discrimination, abuse and - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) ; it is now a full-throated attack under the cynical guise of “safety”—all a smoke- screen for the abuse - Speech Link
3: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) respected, so too must we listen to trans women’s voices, who find themselves subject to mockery and abuse - Speech Link
4: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) Plymouth and Truro offices, providing a free phone helpline, one-to-one support and advocacy, a domestic - Speech Link
5: Olivia Bailey (Lab - Reading West and Mid Berkshire) Let me be clear: they are a form of abuse, and this Government will ban them. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) being announced in two successive Queen’s Speeches, it blew up on the launch pad.Parliament and the courts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con - Life peer) noble friend Lord Finkelstein’s Times article earlier this week spelled out in detail the horrific abuse - Speech Link
3: Lord Cryer (Lab - Life peer) question for my noble friend is: what assessment have the Government made of who the most prominent domestic - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Neate (XB - Life peer) Charities working in communities know how housing, domestic abuse, child protection and criminal justice - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green (XB - Life peer) Before that, at Women’s Aid, she helped shift our understanding of domestic abuse from private tragedy - Speech Link
3: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) abuse survivors and their children. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In 2025—six years later and under this Government—there were 360,000 arrests for domestic abuse but only - Speech Link
2: None Many offenders convicted of the most serious sexual and domestic abuse offences already receive life - Speech Link
3: None We are also introducing a new judicial finding of domestic abuse at sentencing, so that it would provide - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) accommodation are there because they have experienced trauma, addiction, serious mental health issues, abuse - Speech Link
2: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) abuse, leaving care, or combating debilitating addictions or mental health conditions. - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham Edgbaston) The stories of fear, failure and sometimes outright abuse are heartbreaking. - Speech Link
4: Will Forster (LD - Woking) abuse, those with mental health issues and those released from prison—are subject to dangerous housing - Speech Link
5: Lewis Cocking (Con - Broxbourne) abuse and modern slavery. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) abuse, sexual violence or exploitation. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) In practice, this means that many cases of online child sexual abuse are excluded, even where the abuse - Speech Link
3: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) That would help to strengthen public confidence in our courts. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) It seems sad if the courts we are talking about cannot go in the same direction as other courts. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) This is particularly important in domestic abuse and stalking cases, where there may be a perpetrator - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex McIntyre (Lab - Gloucester) I recently met a survivor of domestic abuse and stalking who has repeatedly moved home and then been - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Around one in eight women were victims of sexual assault, domestic abuse and stalking in the year to - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) abuse, and millions extra on funding the domestic abuse perpetrator schemes, which specifically target - Speech Link
4: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) After years of enduring domestic abuse, a constituent of mine came forward to Thames Valley police. - Speech Link
5: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) Rural communities experience domestic abuse the same as those in urban areas, but they have different - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) as well as Crown Courts. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We do not consider this to be a heavy burden on the courts. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) In households where there has also been coercive control and domestic abuse, these repeated requests - Speech Link
4: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) A technology-enabled form of abuse can be profoundly harmful. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) They are dealt with through youth courts under a distinct sentencing framework with rehabilitation as - Speech Link
2: None abuse or sheer neglect, or even, as my noble friend said earlier, just poverty. - Speech Link
3: None The vast majority are tried in specialist youth courts; they have access to lawyers, rights of appeal - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Capable national courts must share the burden, as the German courts have done, in successfully prosecuting - Speech Link
5: None courts of other countries. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) I am on the side of those people who since then have suffered the most sectarian abuse because they are - Speech Link
2: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) I ask plainly: are international courts only legitimate when the accused are Africans? - Speech Link
3: Adnan Hussain (Ind - Blackburn) Our domestic courts do not have the right footing to test whether the Government have truly got this - Speech Link
4: Hamish Falconer (Lab - Lincoln) These legal questions are incredibly important, and they have been considered by both the courts and - Speech Link