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Lords Chamber
Conversion Therapy Prohibition (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Bill [HL] - Fri 09 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) about legislation, whether the GRA, the equal age of consent legislation or the civil partnerships legislation - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) on the activity of community safety partnerships and, in turn, places a duty on community safety partnerships - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) that partnerships have fallen in prominence and impact in recent years. - Speech Link
3: None such as the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, British Transport police, Police Service of Northern Ireland - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) During the marriage, Celine was subjected to controlling and coercive behaviour, including financial - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Religious Persecution and the World Watch List - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) businesses, detention without trial, jailing, abduction, sexual harassment, forced marriage, and Christians - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) and wider partnerships also have a role to play.We can support peace-building efforts more consistently - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) She regularly meets with civil society groups and faith leaders, and has been chairing a series of roundtables - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) His long experience of the law and the Civil Service will serve your Lordships’ House well. - Speech Link
2: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) , the impetus for the provision to prohibit serving whole-life prisoners from forming a marriage is well - Speech Link
3: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) to work with talented politicians and civil servants in formulating policies, steering Bills through - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
COP28 - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) There were also new partnerships with Brazil supporting industrial decarbonisation and hydrogen transitions - Speech Link
2: Edward Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) I pay tribute to the civil servants in the Minister’s Department for their hard work. - Speech Link
3: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) Friend and her energetic, continual and well-informed—not least by marriage—understanding of the nuclear - Speech Link
4: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) Once the Labour Government agreed to take the legislation forward, they realised, as did the civil servants - Speech Link
5: Luke Evans (Con - Bosworth) on civil nuclear fuel co-operation with the United States, Canada, France and Japan? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We strongly condemn forced marriage and the forced conversion of women and girls, including in Pakistan - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) At the age of 14, Maira Shahbaz was abducted, forced into a marriage and raped. - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We continue to raise in Islamabad the issue of forced marriage and conversion with the Pakistani authorities - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) forced marriage and gender-based violence, discrimination and intolerance, especially against minorities - Speech Link
5: Jason McCartney (Con - Colne Valley) allies to continue and enhance not just their military but civil support for Ukraine in its brave campaign - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Mon 11 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con - Life peer) , assembly and association; the right to marriage and family; the right to work, including equal pay - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Parliaments: an active civil society is vital. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) That means working with allied countries, institutions and civil society to protect and bolster the international - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Herbert of South Downs (Con - Life peer) partnership and changed that to a marriage are deemed to have been married from the date of their civil - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The House will know that we introduced the marriage allowance in 2015 to recognise marriage and civil - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Gender Recognition - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We are proud to have passed the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and Turing’s law. - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) reason that we have this is not that the Government supported self-ID but that before the same-sex marriage - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) Secondly, she will know that there are lots of people in the UK who have entered into a same-sex civil - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Ben Bradshaw (Lab - Exeter) It included an equal age of consent, civil partnerships, an end to the ban on gays in the military, gay - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) partnerships—I celebrated my own some 15 years ago—equal marriage, progress on tackling HIV, availability - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) gay partners for immigration purposes; created civil partnerships, allowing same-sex couples to have - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) , I am driven by the fact that we have come a very long way, with equal marriage, gay men being able - Speech Link