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Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) One thing I have become aware of in dealing with domestic abuse, particularly when it is minority groups - Speech Link
2: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) identified children who are victims of domestic and sexual abuse. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) , and domestic abuse. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) We have to meld the respective roles of the Children’s Commissioner and the domestic abuse commissioner - Speech Link
5: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) through domestic abuse. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Abuse of dominance by digital platforms affects thousands of businesses; while platforms make multiple - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) CAT, where a small company has to go to a funder to get support to bring action for redress against abuse - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) regulators, including the Adverting Standards Authority, have the resources or the determination to hold the perpetrators - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It said that the UK needs“even greater domestic climate ambition to reinforce the UK’s international - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) our domestic courts. - Speech Link
2: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) our domestic courts. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) our domestic courts. - Speech Link
4: Lord German (LD - Life peer) , the Bill is an abuse of Parliament’s role in reversing the Supreme Court’s factual assessment of risk - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bshp - Bishops) This continues to be a deeply immoral solution, treating victims as perpetrators and not providing a - Speech Link
6: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) of domestic legislation.The effect of retaining this Section 4 is therefore beneficial in limiting domestic - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) to hold the office of police constable and the impact on public confidence when perpetrators of domestic - Speech Link
2: None duties or otherwise, has engaged in domestic abuse or abuse of position for a sexual purpose; and “domestic - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) the extent of police-perpetrated domestic abuse. - 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) following the Magnitsky laws, but we need to be more prepared to impose sanctions, specifically against perpetrators - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) House of Commons and the House of Lords wish to be part of the APPG. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) the Bill makes important reference to the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and to children as victims of domestic - Speech Link
2: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) abuse and exploitation, sometimes including domestic abuse. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) Hongkongers who have made our country their home.We also have a duty to ensure that proposed changes to our domestic - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) This goes beyond the debate about the abuse of human rights and, as far as I am concerned, well into - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) policy structures that can respond quickly and effectively, or we have not had the capacity to map the perpetrators - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) by the rule of law, both domestic and international. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) with the fewest assets, and often those living with the most challenging mental health or substance abuse-related - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) those things—no threats, no intimidation, no abuse, no insulting words—then it would not be.I am grateful - Speech Link
3: None however, we have to start from the understanding that children are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) There is a balancing exercise between what is permitted in domestic law and those European convention - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2023 - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) When female perpetrators commit domestic homicide, they have often, although not exclusively, been the - Speech Link
2: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) fatal domestic abuse. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Female Domestic Homicides: Black, Asian and Ethnic-minority Overrepresentation - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) it in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) My Lords, studies have shown that ethnic-minority survivors of domestic abuse are much less likely to - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) survivors of domestic abuse need. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) domestic violence can report abuse without fear of detention or deportation? - Speech Link