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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) our ongoing support for civil society actors. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) means that mothers are turning to appallingly unacceptable negative coping mechanisms such as child marriage - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) security partnerships with the Indo-Pacific. - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) These enhanced partnerships will help us collectively to deliver better security for our citizens and - Speech Link
5: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) his takeover of press freedom and other civil liberties? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) consequential legislative changes needed to implement the prisoner marriage and civil partnership clauses - Speech Link
2: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) marriage in the prison visitors’ centre. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) Thus any marriages or civil partnerships contracted by such prisoners, before or after their conviction - Speech Link
4: None 49 on prisoner marriage. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
International Widows Day - Thu 06 Jul 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Parekh (LAB - Life peer) The manner of thinking and talking about marriage and social relations is undergoing fast changes, partly - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Exeter (Bishops - Bishops) The consequences of widowhood for children given in marriage before they are 18 can be severe and lifelong - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) women-led civil society organisations to reach out to the most marginalised women and girls. - Speech Link
4: Lord Mott (CON - Life peer) For example, since 2017, our Work and Opportunities for Women partnerships have benefited more than 115,000 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Pauline Latham (CON - Mid Derbyshire) This morning, I spoke to a national police conference about the police’s new powers, under my Marriage - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) She will know that our dedicated forced marriage unit helps hundreds of victims a year and is providing - Speech Link
3: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) , training and retention in health and social care”. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) We are setting up regional expert partnerships through the £70 million change programme, and in order - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK: Violence Against Women and Girls - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) It is sometimes hard to believe that it was as late as 1991 that rape within marriage was outlawed in - Speech Link
2: Lord Patten (CON - Life peer) across starts early—it has to start early—but one also has to remember, as Mary Tuck, the Home Office civil - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) Crime reduction partnerships must take a lead in co-ordinating information from refuges, the NHS, police - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) honour-based abuse, including female genital mutilation, forced marriage and honour killings, as well - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Inheritance Tax: Cohabiting Siblings - Tue 20 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) partners reflects the formal legal obligations that marriages and civil partnerships necessarily entail - Speech Link
2: Lord Lexden (CON - Life peer) I remind the Government that they blocked my Private Member’s Bill to open up civil partnerships to siblings - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) and civil partnerships. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) The rationale in distinguishing between marriage and civil partnership and other relationships is the - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) The Government’s view is that marriage and civil partnership relationships necessarily entail particular - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pride Month - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) and protection to same-sex relationships, and 10 years since the equal marriage Act—the Marriage (Same - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) extreme right-wing propaganda and possibly the use of Scottish limited partnerships. - Speech Link
3: Ben Bradshaw (LAB - Exeter) We introduced the Gender Recognition Act 2004, civil partnerships, adoption for same-sex couples, tougher - Speech Link
4: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) This year, Gareth and I celebrate 15 years since our civil partnership. [Hon. - Speech Link
5: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) Since that time, many thousands of couples have celebrated civil partnerships and marriages, with the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Mental Health Treatment and Support - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Miriam Cates (CON - Penistone and Stocksbridge) an ideal situation.Family breakdown is far worse for the poor, which of course is closely linked to marriage - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) We need a whole system reform that prioritises the civil society organisations, families and community - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 May 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) intended for members of limited liability partnerships and partners of Scottish partnerships.I will - Speech Link
2: None relief to ensure that limited liability partnerships and Scottish partnerships that hold title to land - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Overseas Territories - Thu 11 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) great British overseas territories.I invite the whole House to join me in welcoming representatives, civil - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) We need to legalise same-sex marriage and we need the UK Government to do more than simply support it - Speech Link
3: James Sunderland (CON - Bracknell) Perhaps.We need to station civil servants in the overseas territories for longer too, and delegations - Speech Link
4: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) Recently, there was a controversy where a senior civil servant of the Foreign Office was lambasted and - Speech Link