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Public Bill Committees
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None We must obviously ensure that all our Crown courts are kitted out with this system. - Speech Link
2: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) The courts are weaponised and survivors are brought back to the courts repeatedly. - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) About 47% of appeals against sentences from the magistrates courts result in a change. - Speech Link
4: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) his independent review of the criminal courts; it was recommendation 58. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Eleventh sitting)
Committee stage: 11th sitting - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) What have been trialled are courts with specific trauma-informed training. - Speech Link
2: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) I will make a couple of wider points on the merits of specialist rape courts and courts for sexual offences.There - Speech Link
3: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) We do not need legislation to deliver specialist courts. - Speech Link
4: None Her insights will be critical to shaping what we mean by specialist courts. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) However, the introduction of such courts does not require primary legislation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 27 Apr 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None service that affect how much children use the service, and the impact of such use on the level of risk - Speech Link
2: None Moreover, her proposals to create new criminal offences for failure to comply risk creating unnecessary - Speech Link
3: Lord Nash (Con - Life peer) Bill in clear terms what they intend to do, there would be a much-reduced risk of JR. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 27 Apr 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of compensating 1950s-born women impacted - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing compensation to women born in - Speech Link
3: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations in the - Speech Link
4: Ben Coleman (Lab - Chelsea and Fulham) Has an assessment been made of the impact on poverty of removing that support? - Speech Link
5: Andrew Snowden (Con - Fylde) What assessment he has made of trends in the level of unemployment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Dunmurry Police Station Attack - Mon 27 Apr 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) In fairness, I should also remind the House that the threat assessment at the moment remains substantial - Speech Link
2: Josh Babarinde (LD - Eastbourne) ensure that terrorists face the full force of the law, can the Secretary of State tell us what assessment - Speech Link
3: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) The assessment of the nature of the threat—which is currently substantial and has previously been severe - Speech Link
4: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) during the troubles, when this Government are making it easier for them to be dragged through the courts - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , MI6, special branch—or to a lack of police service on the ground that affects patrolling in high-risk - Speech Link


Grand Committee
First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) Fees (Amendment) Order 2026 - Mon 27 Apr 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) made under the powers provided by Section 42(1)(a) and 42(2) and Section 49(3) of the Tribunals, Courts - Speech Link
2: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) It occurred to me to wonder whether the Government have made an assessment. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) ahead of necessary improvements to the capacity and efficiency of the courts and the tribunal system - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 24 Apr 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) Others, without the ability or resources to take control, risk dying terribly or without dignity, in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (XB - Life peer) When the outcome is irreversible, that risk must be treated with the utmost seriousness. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Gerada (XB - Life peer) , even today, but risk is not unfamiliar territory in medicine. - Speech Link
4: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord says that there has been no publicly available impact assessment; that is wrong. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It simply was not practicable to put it into the courts. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Tenth sitting) - Thu 23 Apr 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) The National Police Chiefs’ Council strategic risk assessment 2023 identified that 25% of victim survivors - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) to make orders that place children at risk. - Speech Link
3: None Under this model, specialist domestic abuse support is introduced alongside early risk assessment to - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: 9th sitting - Thu 23 Apr 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None heard.”This amendment would broaden the test for granting permission to appeal from magistrates’ courts - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) We decided not to replicate the provision for appeals from the magistrates courts. - Speech Link
3: None The amendment contradicts the Government’s aims of increasing efficiency across the courts. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) It is not as if, all of a sudden, a huge risk to access to justice is created. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons - Thu 23 Apr 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None iii) such other persons as the Lord Chancellor considers appropriate, and (b) publish an impact assessment - Speech Link
2: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) The Government do not respond to an impact assessment; rather, an impact assessment is published alongside - Speech Link
3: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) and, as the noble Baroness rightly points out, a response to that impact assessment was also sought. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We therefore keenly await the publication and findings of the impact assessment. - Speech Link