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Westminster Hall
Indefinite Leave to Remain - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford) For women fleeing domestic abuse, disabled people, and the LGBT communities, the impact will be cruel - Speech Link
2: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) It must be acknowledged that claiming asylum is a human right; it is not an abuse of any system. - Speech Link
3: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) abuse, child poverty, workforce retention and local authority costs. - Speech Link
4: Ian Lavery (Lab - Blyth and Ashington) There is a real issue with certificates of sponsorship because of abuse and exploitation. - Speech Link
5: Tony Vaughan (Lab - Folkestone and Hythe) It was also said that the changes could lock victims into situations of domestic violence. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: None by Southall Black Sisters; Roshni, which supports Black and minoritised communities affected by domestic - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) The court has ruled that domestic laws that prohibit abortion do not violate Article 8. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) On 17 June last year, the Minister for Victims and Violence Against Women and Girls set out in the other - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) for personal reasons while failing to guarantee the protection of women who have been a victim of abuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) Removing all criminal liability removes an important safeguard and may leave coercion and abuse undiscovered - Speech Link
2: None abuse within the meaning of Section 1 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and where such abuse was a substantial - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hazarika (Lab - Life peer) It also chimes with the scandal of young women who were the victims of the Pakistani grooming gangs, - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) abuse, child abuse and trafficking. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) of reproductive coercion, domestic abuse, child rape, trafficking or modern slavery, when we have so - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 30 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) A Michigan prosecutor famously spotted a domestic abuse victim being coerced during a Zoom hearing. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) In Michigan, a prosecutor noticed a domestic abuse victim being coerced off camera during a Zoom hearing - Speech Link
3: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) The impact of increasing domestic abuse was also because there was more recording. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) We remember not only to honour the victims, but to understand how such an atrocity became possible and - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Proposed by a cross-party commission more than a decade ago, the memorial will honour the victims and - Speech Link
3: Paul Waugh (LAB - Rochdale) Hatred based on race or religion, with victims scapegoated for sins they never committed, demonised, - Speech Link
4: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) It will serve as a lasting tribute to the 6 million Jewish victims, and to all victims of Nazi persecution - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prison Capacity: Annual Statement - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) our law and order system would be in crisis today, with criminals allowed to roam the streets, and victims - Speech Link
2: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) our streets, end the revolving door of less serious offenders going in and out of prison, and put victims - Speech Link
3: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) abuse cases and for prolific offenders, which many shoplifters are. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ukraine: Non-recognition of Russian-occupied Territories - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Members through Russia’s systemic abuse of the Ukrainian civilian population in the temporarily occupied - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Journalists who have tried to document events have also become victims of torture and repression. - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) education.Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories have been subject to the most appalling abuse - Speech Link
4: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) On the statute book, we have sanctions available for deliberate abuse of human rights. - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) a point about accountability for those who have committed massacres, persecution, rape and sexual abuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Crisp (XB - Life peer) My point is that home education should be seen as a risk factor only for those with a record of abuse - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) of domestic abuse at further risk. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) Another example is protection from an offending father who has perpetrated serious domestic violence - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) We have thought this through very carefully, particularly from the perspective of victims of domestic - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Firearms Licence Holders: Mandatory Medical Markers - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) That could include a change in their mental health or evidence of substance abuse. - Speech Link
2: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) The Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s office welcomes the digital medical marker and recognises the work - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) a medical condition such as a propensity to wanting to commit suicide or manic depression, or if domestic - Speech Link
4: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) In discussing these issues today, I know that we all have the victims of that crime—Emma Pattison and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Digital Exploitation of Women and Girls - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) violence and coercive control—and digital abuse and exploitation of someone’s image, where victims are - Speech Link
2: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) Although we are seeing an increase in the reporting of digital abuse, it often leads to victims feeling - Speech Link
3: Joe Morris (Lab - Hexham) Without recognition for domestic abuse victims under the age of 16, the system will continue to fail - Speech Link
4: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Hitchin) I have been working with one woman who, having escaped domestic abuse and relocated to my constituency - Speech Link