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Lords Chamber
Draft Conversion Practices Bill - Wed 01 Jul 2026
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None These will be similar to protection orders for forced marriage and female genital mutilation, and can - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer) The rest were already seeking help for domestic abuse, forced marriage, housing or mental health.I am - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) When we have debated same-sex marriage in this House and the right reverend Prelate’s colleagues have - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Jun 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Douglas Lumsden (Con - Aberdeen South) after a year of dither and hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money wasted, have now been forced - Speech Link
2: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) What reassurances can the Minister give my constituent about the resources allocated to such prosecutions - Speech Link
3: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) Under this Government, prosecutions and convictions for child sexual abuse have gone up, but I would - Speech Link
4: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) The Law Commission’s recommendation that the rule that marriage revokes a will be abolished is well evidenced - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) ensure families in Northern Ireland can benefit from similar modernised protections against predatory marriage - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Draft Conversion Practices Bill - Thu 25 Jun 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Olivia Bailey (Lab - Reading West and Mid Berkshire) These will be similar to protection orders for forced marriage and female genital mutilation, and can - Speech Link
2: Olivia Bailey (Lab - Reading West and Mid Berkshire) Those are the tests that will be used by the courts when determining whether prosecutions should be brought - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Thu 18 Jun 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Sahota (Lab - Life peer) In this day and age, no child from any community should be forced into poverty, insecurity or unstable - Speech Link
2: Baroness Spielman (Con - Life peer) More than half of children are now born outside marriage. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Combating Atrocity Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide - Thu 04 Jun 2026
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Criminal Court with the 2003-08 genocide in Darfur—a systematic campaign of mass killings, rape and forced - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Local women were forced to work as cooks, cleaners and prostitutes with the soldiers.A year later, in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) There was direct and indirect evidence of forced organ harvesting. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) explicitly to accept or reject such marriage. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 18 May 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) and a system that is fair and fast and commands public confidence, which will ensure the immediate forced - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) The Prime Minister, in his previous incarnation as the Director of Public Prosecutions, said:“The right - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) Anyone having to defend themselves against a SLAPP is too often forced into submission because they do - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) There will be few prosecutions, but the investigators must have the powers to which I have referred. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) Government are going to introduce humanist wedding ceremonies in England, as there is a missing “marriage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage part two - Wed 18 Mar 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None acting in relation to her own pregnancy except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions - Speech Link
2: None It would be an additional check on prosecutions; the pregnant woman involved might, as things currently - Speech Link
3: None When you turn to prosecutions and convictions under Sections 58 and 59 Offences Against the Person Act - Speech Link
4: None There were seven prosecutions against men in the same period, and there were three convictions. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barker (LD - Life peer) It is to ask that prosecutions cease and desist. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 09 Mar 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith (Lab - Life peer) I worked very closely together when we were in government, when he was the Director of Public Prosecutions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) though they are not quite sure what it is yet, so fair enough—as well as academics working on cousin marriage - Speech Link
3: None chaplain at the University of Leeds whose wife and two children, only a couple of years ago, were forced - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) not committed and would not commit—and I do not suppose they will at this stage commit—to end prosecutions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) Last month, a teacher was referred to the national counterterror programme and forced out of his job - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Acton (Con - Life peer) Even though no action was taken and no prosecutions were made in those two cases, Julian Foulkes and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In the CPS report on recent hate crime prosecutions there was a telling, shocking example. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) Gender identity is one; marriage and civil partnership is another. - Speech Link
5: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) However, prosecutions and enforcement action are necessary to reduce casualties on the road. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sugg (Con - Life peer) Despite an active forced marriage protection order, Somaiya was murdered by a family member. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) or pregnancy outside marriage; having interfaith, interethnic, intercaste relationships; ending a marriage - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) They can include physical assault, emotional and psychological control, forced marriage, female genital - Speech Link
4: None The Freedom Charity, chaired by Aneeta Prem, which works on forced marriage, protecting women and girls - Speech Link