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
Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) strategy to be published tomorrow, she will see that there is a real commitment to up the number of prosecutions - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) I cannot give too much detail today, but the issue of forced marriage that that he raised, as well as - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) political parties can escape responsibility—some being deliberate policy decisions and others being forced - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) As for the appalling disabilities that are caused by first-cousin marriage, which continues to have a - Speech Link
3: Lord Frost (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Women have more choices, education and careers rightly come first and marriage is delayed, but these - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) It was a little over two weeks ago that my noble friend Lord Jackson of Peterborough forced Ministers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Deben (Con - Life peer) If you die now, your house will save his marriage, will save his firm and will look after his future” - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) also be pressure from algorithms themselves, without a human intervening.In addition to the two prosecutions - Speech Link
3: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) I was only trying to bring in the evidence of three former Directors of Public Prosecutions. - Speech Link
4: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) is able to ask for a calm, assisted death, they will die with dignity and not in squalor, having forced - Speech Link
5: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) guidelines, and for good reason, because the Director of Public Prosecutions recognised the power of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I have some worries that community orders and suspended sentences —forced through not based on efficacy - Speech Link
2: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) The judge said that it was impossible to identify a motive, even though she had been under a forced marriage - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (XB - Life peer) been wrongly implemented for more than 30 years has had “no discernible impact” on the number of prosecutions - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cashman (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Similarly, hard-won gay marriage rights will mean little if we must still show exceptional circumstances - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) Why, then, should a legal act, forced upon many in the most desperate of circumstances, be used as a - Speech Link
3: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) There are some legitimate reasons why you would not want somebody to be forced to undergo that sort of - Speech Link
4: None This is all to say that the decisions to pursue prosecutions in cases where there is an active asylum - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) Against that background, the present work ban is actually driving people into exploitation and forced - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) by the idea that someone who was in charge of macro decision-making as the Director of Public Prosecutions - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) “Cannabis dealer claimed deportation would destroy his marriage”. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) conflict and persecution, and because of the speed and manner in which those seeking asylum are often forced - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Nearly 15 years ago, when I was the Director of Public Prosecutions, I met many of the Hillsborough families - Speech Link
2: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) Ordinary people with limited resources were forced to push back against state institutions, fighting - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) Then, in 2023, the same families were forced into court against Bayer and the Government. - Speech Link
4: Liam Conlon (Lab - Beckenham and Penge) His marriage almost broke down and he contemplated suicide. - Speech Link
5: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) Families, instead of grieving their loss, are forced to fight for the truth. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) Members of this House for China, and the Director of Public Prosecutions has acknowledged that this appears - Speech Link
2: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) However, last week, on 24 October, the Director of Public Prosecutions said that that was categorically - Speech Link
3: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) Indeed, the Opposition should ask what the Director of Public Prosecutions himself said about that; he - Speech Link
4: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) As the third party spokesperson, I feel obliged to play the role of a marriage counsellor. - Speech Link
5: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson), offered his service as a marriage guidance counsellor. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) A decade of underfunding has forced police to borrow just to maintain their dilapidated buildings and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon (Lab - Life peer) I do not want to see this repeated in years to come, with families forced to go through what my family - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sugg (Con - Life peer) marriage, have happened in the shadows for too long. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) Those with a grievance are the ones forced to stay. - Speech Link
5: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) Such prosecutions may prevent them finding employment or travelling to the States, as my noble friend - Speech Link