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Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Victims of Part 1 offences qualify when the offender receives“a sentence of imprisonment … for a term - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Just to double-check, I went to the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) support through the victim contact scheme.Part 2 ensures support for victims of stalking and harassment - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) I urge her to deliver for the Committee and for the people of this country, for the past victims of miscarriages - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) providing safe housing for victims of abuse as they escape their abusers. - Speech Link
2: Marie Goldman (LD - Chelmsford) ringfenced funding for specialist services, including for older victims. - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) Some of the work that appears in the strategy—specialist advocates for rape victims in courts, for example—started - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) more support for victims and survivors of crime. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) specialist services for victims of exploitation and abuse, and for victims with specific needs, is not - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) our regime for supporting victims of crime in general. - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) We need to make more use of new technology for listing, for pre-trial hearings and for evidence preparation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) If she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her timetable for bringing forward legislative - Speech Link
2: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South and South Bedfordshire) , such as the match funding for criminal barrister pupillages. - Speech Link
3: Torcuil Crichton (Lab - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Does the Secretary of State agree that in rural and island communities it takes a lot of courage for - Speech Link
4: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) We are investing more in support services for victims, and my hon. - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) That means more youth workers, more youth centres and a network of 50 Young Futures hubs, on top of our - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None This is clearly unacceptable both for the suspect and for the victims, and of course some of those people - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) to this important review mechanism for victims of what are in fact some of the most serious and distressing - Speech Link
3: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) The Bill, as drafted, would cut custodial sentences for more than 60% of rapists and over 80% of offenders - Speech Link
4: None We can take as an example one of the most widely used protective orders for domestic abuse victims for - Speech Link
5: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) had been recalled for intimidating, harassing or stalking their victims. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Angiolini Inquiry - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) the victims and their families, and for the sake of women and girls across England and Wales, we must - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) Only 10% of victims of violence against women and girls ever talk to the police, so that in and of itself - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) She also says that there is a troubling lack of momentum, funding and ambition for this prevention work - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) victims funding, which will increase year on year with the rising rates of inflation. - Speech Link
5: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) their disrespect for the safety of women in my community. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Violence against Women and Girls: London - Tue 25 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) , I spoke about the London Victims’ Commissioner’s stalking review, which found that 45% of stalking - Speech Link
2: Jess Asato (Lab - Lowestoft) , only for them to return a few weeks later, beaten further.We know that victims are far more likely - Speech Link
3: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) more than 4,000 victims and survivors of grooming and rape gangs, the vast majority of whom are women - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) for a section 2A stalking charge. - Speech Link
5: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) of the money being used for specialist “by and for” services. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 21 Nov 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Pannick (XB - Life peer) need for any of these amendments. - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) for a serious piece of surgery. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hay of Ballyore (DUP - Life peer) Every week there are new headlines about hospices struggling for funding and the increasing costs of - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) If noble Lords would like to hear more examples, I am sure they will ask for them.None of these possibilities - Speech Link
5: None Nationally, only 3.9% of referrals were for disabled victims, which, based on per capita population, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
2nd reading - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) particularly in the light of the death of Baroness Newlove, who campaigned so vigorously for victims - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Justice further advocates for the removal of the courts’ powers to remand individuals for their own protection - Speech Link
3: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) Additional funding for the Probation Service is not all that is needed for the expansion of tagging, - Speech Link
4: Baroness Porter of Fulwood (Con - Life peer) As the Institute for Government notes, the Bill shifts the weight of responsibility for much more of - Speech Link
5: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) It is worth remembering the massive cost of reoffending, estimated to account for more than half of the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Report stage - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) for either the police force or the potential victims.(3) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) to commission specific support services for victims—and caregivers of victimsof abuse and exploitation - Speech Link
3: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) It would require necessary updates to the victims code for relatives of victims of murder or manslaughter - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) I also hear their calls for more support for child victims. - Speech Link