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Lords Chamber
International Holocaust Memorial Day - Thu 19 Jan 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Pickles (CON - Life peer) He survived the ghetto, concentration camps and the death march. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kestenbaum (LAB - Life peer) Her death at the hands of the Nazis was not the end of our family tragedy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) Stalin once said that the death of an individual is a tragedy but the death of a million is a statistic - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) The resurgence of global far-right networks poses a continuous and dangerous threat. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) has not already reached us—to stop that death penalty going ahead? - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) Last night, we all heard that he was sentenced to death. - Speech Link
3: David Jones (CON - Clwyd West) Mr Ghobadlou was sentenced to death for “spreading corruption on Earth”. - Speech Link
4: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) or may already have been sentenced to death. - Speech Link
5: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) Friend spoke about a number of cases involving the death penalty. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gulf States: Human Rights Abuses - Thu 24 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) 2017, Bahrain ended a temporary moratorium on the death penalty, and death sentences have risen by more - Speech Link
2: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) As in Qatar, being gay is haram and is punishable by prison or death. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) He has now spent seven years on death row and at the weekend was moved into what is known as a death - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) He has been moved to a death sentence cell. - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) Bahrain last used the death penalty in July 2019. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Christmas Adjournment - Tue 20 Dec 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) key workers, who have to work the night shift when no public transport provision is available and driving - Speech Link
2: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) Everyone was hopeful of a conviction for death by dangerous driving. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Murders: Sentencing - Tue 11 Oct 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) Arthur suffered 130 injuries in the lead-up to his death at the age of six. - Speech Link
2: Charles Walker (CON - Broxbourne) Gentleman cannot talk about sentencing in this case. - Speech Link
3: Charles Walker (CON - Broxbourne) I am sorry, but according to the Clerk, you cannot talk about sentencing. - Speech Link
4: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) and:“How long does it take to bleed to death from a stab wound?” - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None It comes back to the philosophical distinction involving “legal but harmful”, a decision put first in - Speech Link
2: None I speak in particular about platforms relating to dangerous, extremist content —be it Islamist, right - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) We know that suicide is the leading cause of death in men aged under 50 years and females aged under - Speech Link
4: Suzanne Webb (CON - Stourbridge) Many families have spent years and years still unable to understand their child’s death. - Speech Link
5: Miriam Cates (CON - Penistone and Stocksbridge) The death rates on the roads, even in the 1940s, were 13 times higher than they are now. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
Committee stage - Tue 22 Nov 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Note that when Labour introduced an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill for fast-track - Speech Link
2: None offences, to limit the range of acts potentially criminalised, to bring some proportionality to sentencing - Speech Link
3: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) would have been whipped against when it came up previously in the passage of the Police, Crime, Sentencing - Speech Link
4: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) It illustrates what dangerous territory we are in and how close we are to the cliff edge of losing our - Speech Link
5: None If I was in a vehicle driving through Parliament Square, how would I know that the police had the power - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Order Bill
Report stage - Tue 18 Oct 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None The foreseen consequences here are dangerous. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) I was with her at the demonstration outside New Scotland Yard following the death of Chris Kaba. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) Indeed, only last summer we looked at this again in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) I hope that, in turn, harsher sentencing for those hate crimes would act as a deterrent and encourage - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 05 Sep 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) There is no safe way to take dangerous drugs, so I do not support legalising drugs. - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) There are people who have been refused on legitimate grounds involving national security concerns, which - Speech Link
3: Naz Shah (LAB - Bradford West) driving has gone up, and all the while families are feeling unsafe to walk the streets of Britain. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Solloway (CON - Derby North) Every domestic abuse-related death is a tragedy, leaving too many families in grief. - Speech Link
5: Simon Baynes (CON - Clwyd South) The rise in dangerous channel crossings is unacceptable, as my hon. Friend has said. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Community Payback - Tue 28 Jun 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) outset, I declare my interests, having served as a magistrate for 12 years, as a member of the Sentencing - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) Sadly, they are becoming the dangerous norm—if the Minister wants to listen. - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) by dangerous driving; increasing from 14 years to life the maximum sentence for causing death by careless - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) When we talk about community sentencing, the rehabilitative part is important, as my hon. - Speech Link