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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) What assessment she has made of the adequacy of flood defences in Twickenham constituency. - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) For the very first time, the mapping under the new national flood risk assessment—NaFRA 2—includes the - Speech Link
3: Mary Creagh (Lab - Coventry East) In October 2024, the Government published a full assessment of the impact of the scheme. - Speech Link
4: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) Jury trials make up 3% of cases currently heard in the criminal courts. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) provisions in the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 that were found by the courts - Speech Link
2: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) I do not agree with his assessment and have made the position clear to him in the correspondence we have - Speech Link
3: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) of conditional immunity has created real anxiety, particularly among veterans groups, who fear the risk - Speech Link
4: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) the Government believe we have a compelling case, and the JCHR has agreed with the Government’s assessment - Speech Link
5: Sarah Pochin (RUK - Runcorn and Helsby) Why would young men and women join our armed forces with the risk of that happening to them? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) I have tabled amendments with general concerns about cyclists putting pedestrians at risk. - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Are we putting ourselves at undue risk in that regard? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) Multiple institutions had sight of risk, but none had a duty to prevent it. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) The company employs 250 people in Keighley whose jobs are potentially at risk as a result of the business - Speech Link
2: Callum Anderson (Lab - Buckingham and Bletchley) investing in skills and apprenticeships, or undertaking fundamental pensions reform to free up more risk - Speech Link
3: Alison Taylor (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) We need a firm foundation of laws, police to enforce them and courts to oversee the process. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice System: Wales - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) again shows how the Probation Service has to operate in this “jagged edge”, where prisoners are at risk - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) We know that the issue in our courts is quite severe at the moment.Going back to our prisons, HMP Usk - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Friend is absolutely right to raise the shocking situation in our Crown courts and civil courts that - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) assessment and an equality impact assessment—and of course we will publish it in the usual way. - Speech Link
3: Matt Turmaine (Lab - Watford) Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that staffing is what makes magistrates courts and family courts - Speech Link
4: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) What steps he is taking to tackle backlogs in the courts. - Speech Link
5: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) What steps he is taking to tackle backlogs in the courts. - Speech Link
6: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) courts to cope with those increases? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) That is outlined in our impact assessment. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If the courts cannot compel attendance by criminals, justice is undermined; it is vital that the courts - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) That is clearly a risk. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) of the staff as to what the risk is. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) The risk may be managed but it is not eliminated. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) The Scottish Prison Service apologised because it did not do what it should have done: a full risk assessment - Speech Link
3: None This is not about gender; it is about risk. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The risk is around the individual. - Speech Link
5: None I want to ask the Minister about the equality impact assessment. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) If we know where the danger lies, we have a duty to act before another child is placed at risk. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) Few would risk their licence if the chances of being stopped were increased and unpredictable. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) As a result, alcohol interlocks are not part of the UK courts’ sentencing toolkit. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It represents not merely statistics but a vast unknown risk to every law-abiding citizen. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) probably will not happen: you will take the risk. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Consideration of Lords message - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) Has the Minister conducted an impact assessment? - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) If they do not know what that risk is, they will not underwrite it. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) It was not in the manifesto or the Bill or the impact assessment. - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) There has been no risk assessment, no impact assessment, and no consultation. - Speech Link