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Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th Sitting - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) A life sentence is an extremely high bar, reserved for the gravest offences such as murder and rape. - Speech Link
2: None by dangerous driving, various sexual offences and many others. - Speech Link
3: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) prosecutions and convictions between 2021 and 2023. - Speech Link
4: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) prosecutions and convictions between 2021 and 2023. - Speech Link
5: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) They are at risk of physical harm, rape and sexual abuse, emotional abuse, severe injury or even being - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mary Creagh (Lab - Coventry East) Rochdale council has an exemplary record on fly-tipping, with 26 fixed-penalty notices and 12 prosecutions - Speech Link
2: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) Cheshire police and CPS prosecutors, to ensure that charging decisions, including in rape and serious - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) The Crown Prosecution Service is widening their panel, including for rape and serious sexual offences - Speech Link
4: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) country, and to ensure that perpetrators of such offences are put behind bars. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mary Creagh (Lab - Coventry East) The low rates of fixed penalty notices and prosecutions mean that this is a consequence-free crime. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) This will mean additional specialists in rape and serious sexual offences, boosting investigators to - Speech Link
3: Helen Grant (Con - Maidstone and Malling) , and when will the specialist rape courts be introduced? - Speech Link
4: Helen Grant (Con - Maidstone and Malling) the funding will enable additional staff recruitment at the specialist rape and serious sexual offence - Speech Link
5: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) sexual offences, that decision is reviewed by a deputy Crown prosecutor before it is taken. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 28 Jan 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) I do not recall seeing him standing up and speaking about delays for rape victims, or indeed any other - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) We are therefore funding the rape and sexual abuse support fund to the tune of £26 million, as well as - Speech Link
3: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) It has been revealed that just 4% of rape and sexual offences reported to Lancashire police in the past - Speech Link
4: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) rape and sexual offences. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse - Thu 16 Jan 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) to go further in tackling sexual exploitation and grooming on the streets and online, in order to keep - Speech Link
2: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) As a barrister and a former Crown prosecutor for 14 years who dealt with sexual abuse and rape cases, - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) What started as online abuse and grooming then led to contact abuse and rape, and the most appalling - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) abuse and a statutory two-year investigation into child sexual exploitation and grooming gangs. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crown Court Criminal Case Backlog - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) Seriously delayed cases included 21% for violence and 18% for sexual offences. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of London (Bshp - Bishops) , serious sexual offences and violent crimes. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) cases, such as rape cases and so on. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) and serious sexual offences. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Courts and Tribunals: Sitting Days - Wed 05 Mar 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Jury trials are a pillar of our justice system for the most serious offences, and that will never change - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) We have ringfenced funding for victims of rape and serious sexual offences, as well as domestic abuse - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) Yesterday, the Public Accounts Committee published a report that says that rape and serious sexual offences - Speech Link
4: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Those independent legal advisers will ensure that rape victims’ rights in law are respected and that - Speech Link
5: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) The worst cases he has raised with me include serious sexual assault and rape cases that have been delayed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse - Mon 06 Jan 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Child sexual abuse and exploitation are the most vile and horrific of crimes, involving rape, violence - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Child sexual exploitation and abuse is a heinous crime. - Speech Link
3: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) I stand with all victims of child sexual exploitation and sexual violence. As the hon. - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) abuse, grooming and gang rape. - Speech Link
5: Harpreet Uppal (Lab - Huddersfield) that we support local charities such as the Kirklees rape and sexual abuse centre and the Pennine domestic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 10 Sep 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Marie Tidball (Lab - Penistone and Stocksbridge) What steps her Department is taking to support victims of rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
2: Alison Hume (Lab - Scarborough and Whitby) What steps her Department is taking to support victims of rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
3: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) What steps her Department is taking to support victims of rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
4: Dan Aldridge (Lab - Weston-super-Mare) What steps her Department is taking to support victims of rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
5: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon and Consett) What steps her Department is taking to support victims of rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
6: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) What steps her Department is taking to support victims of rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
7: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) The Government are deeply committed to supporting victims of rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
8: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) In May, we extended free transcripts of sentencing remarks to victims of rape and serious sexual offences - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 12 Sep 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) rape and sexual offence teams in every police force. - Speech Link
2: Neil Shastri-Hurst (Con - Solihull West and Shirley) Among the most serious offences involving women and girls are rape and serious sexual offences. - Speech Link
3: Alberto Costa (Con - South Leicestershire) officers investigate rape and serious sexual offences and over the last year we have trained over 4,500 - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Just one in 83 rape offences recorded by Avon and Somerset Police last year resulted in a charge or court - Speech Link