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Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 09 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) In Mid Essex from 1 April women will have access to IVF on the NHS for the first time. - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) That happens, and at the same time we have female sex workers murdered every week of the year who do - Speech Link
3: Dawn Butler (LAB - Brent Central) For example, for sex workers, working alone is okay, but working in pairs is illegal. - Speech Link
4: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) We need to help fund those refuges, and they need to be places of safety for women to seek refuge.We - Speech Link
5: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) women’s healthcare needs.We will also level up IVF access to same-sex couples and across the board, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 24 Jan 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) We are improving and standardising access to in vitro fertilisation for same-sex couples around the country - Speech Link
2: Liz Kendall (LAB - Leicester West) for the patients waiting for operations and bad for taxpayers? - Speech Link
3: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) Friend for his question. - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) Lady for her question. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fertility Treatment and Employment Rights - Tue 01 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) It is also a route to having a family for LGBT couples, as well as for those who do not have a partner - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I hope for a future for couples where they can get the support from their employers as needed, both before - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) We must recognise the need for same-sex couples to have that support, and the need for support to be - Speech Link
4: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) For many, IVF is a multi-cycle experience. - Speech Link
5: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) However, an increasing number of same-sex couples are undergoing treatment to start their own families - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Women’s Health Strategy for England - Thu 21 Jul 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None This is not only important for women and girls; it is important for everyone. - Speech Link
2: None that have persisted for too long. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) There are plans in the strategy to remove barriers to IVF for lesbian couples, which we welcome. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) We recognise that some transgender people may experience some of the same issues—for example, transgender - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Women’s Health Strategy for England - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (LAB - Ilford North) in same-sex couples. - Speech Link
2: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) taken on board the Stonewall campaign to bring the rest of the UK into line with Scotland on female same-sex - Speech Link
3: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) the issue of same-sex couples having access to IVF. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
50 Years of Pride in the UK - Thu 30 Jun 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) , the legality—for goodness’ sake—of same-sex relations, and even the use of contraception. - Speech Link
2: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) In 11 of those countries, the death penalty still exists for consensual same-sex activities. - Speech Link
3: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) , including same-sex couples, to apply for joint adoption, again in the face of hostility.As so many - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Baby Loss Awareness Week - Thu 23 Sep 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) Member for Truro and Falmouth (Cherilyn Mackrory), for her bravery and for sharing her experience on - Speech Link
2: Paul Bristow (CON - Peterborough) Friend for having the courage to tell his story. I, too, have been through the experience of IVF. - Speech Link
3: James Sunderland (CON - Bracknell) couples going through IVF, please have respect for what they are doing. - Speech Link
4: James Sunderland (CON - Bracknell) For those considering IVF, just go for it. It does work. - Speech Link
5: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) The only answer, of course, is to keep talking and campaigning for the other women, couples and families - Speech Link


Grand Committee
International Women’s Day - Thu 11 Mar 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) is the same for nursing.Mostly, but not in every case, countries led by women have handled Covid better - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jolly (LDEM - Life peer) I try to do for others what they did for me. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) There is currently a call for evidence out for this. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Women’s Health Inequalities - Tue 10 Mar 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) Dental dams do not come in quite the same range, for, I would imagine, a variety of reasons. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Farry (Alliance - North Down) We need rules on qualification for publicly funded IVF, and these need to be tailored for women who are - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) We have made great strides in advancing equality for LGBT people, from changing the law to allow same-sex - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 22 Oct 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Lingfield (CON - Life peer) It means that colleges of further education in those areas can be permitted to fund level 3 courses for - Speech Link
2: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) There, as some of your Lordships will know, I was the originator and architect of the same-sex marriage - Speech Link
3: Baroness Donaghy (LAB - Life peer) away the responsibility of the Government for their top-down reorganisation, their failure to fund the - Speech Link
4: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) For much the same reason, foreign students, who bring in cross-cultural ideas as well as vital funds, - Speech Link
5: Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB - Life peer) Will the Government commit to providing a hardship fund for those on universal credit if there are sudden - Speech Link