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Westminster Hall
Children with SEND: Assessments and Support - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Roz Savage (LD - South Cotswolds) schools to ensure that SEND support is strengthened, so that schools are properly resourced and not forced - Speech Link
2: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) As the 122,000 signatures on today’s petition show, too many families are forced into crisis before help - Speech Link
3: Chris Coghlan (LD - Dorking and Horley) Although she ultimately won her fight, that cost Jenny her life savings and her marriage. - Speech Link
4: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) We have heard that when parents are forced to take legal action, they are overwhelmingly successful. - Speech Link
5: Martin Wrigley (LD - Newton Abbot) To combat this, the approach has been to deny help to SEND children until it is forced upon the council - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Daesh Crimes: Accountability (JCHR Report) - Tue 09 Sep 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) Women and girls have been specifically targeted and subjected to abductions, forced conversions, forced - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) conversions, forced marriage, rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
3: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) International comparisons in the context of prosecutions must include some caveats. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Female Genital Mutilation - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Lord Hermer (Lab - Life peer) we now have FGM clinics, which are mainstreamed in the NHS, and it is why at the borders we have a forced - Speech Link
2: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) up of a task force, to report very quickly, whose objective will be to increase the number of prosecutions - Speech Link
3: Lord Hermer (Lab - Life peer) We are convinced that successful prosecutions not only amount to justice for the victims but send a clear - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rachel Taylor (Lab - North Warwickshire and Bedworth) Of 11,000 disability hate crimes recorded by police, 320 led to prosecutions. - Speech Link
2: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) Member proposed.I support new clause 150 relating to cousin marriage. - Speech Link
3: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) At the end of this inquiry, will we see prosecutions? Will we see deportations? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Far too many women, like Samantha, are forced to leave work because they do not get the support that - Speech Link
2: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) considered to be violence against women and girls, such as rape, sexual assault, domestic abuse, forced - Speech Link
3: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) He brought the first prosecutions against grooming gangs, and called for action to address ethnicity - Speech Link
4: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) Even when a home becomes available, she will be forced to compete with other residents because there - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Yes, we must stop the investigations and prosecutions under outdated laws that make no sense, but we - Speech Link
2: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) This small rise in prosecutions has been caused by the pills-by-post scheme, which has enabled women, - Speech Link
3: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) These prosecutions are deeply distressing and, in most cases, entirely disproportionate. - Speech Link
4: Deirdre Costigan (Lab - Ealing Southall) marriage by her family. - Speech Link
5: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) For example, there would no longer be a specific offence to cover cases of forced abortion. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) settled homes; children being sent many miles from their home area; siblings being split up; children forced - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) In Wales and Scotland, there has been no evidence of a significant increase in prosecutions following - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) message.I believe that the results from Wales and Scotland are showing no major increase, if any, in prosecutions - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) point noble Lords to an article responding to some of the work of Professor Larzelere in the journal Marriage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) He loved what he was doing so was afraid to ask for payment and was forced to take a second job to sustain - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) The noble Viscount, Lord Colville, asked about the number of prosecutions. - Speech Link
3: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) If you put that in the context of a work environment, where it is about your livelihood, marriage and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
2nd reading2nd Reading - Tue 20 May 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) If courts hold trials and the police are forced to stop making arrests, crime goes unpunished and victims - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) This means that, in cases where a victim’s family does not want to see the offender forced to attend, - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) ’ costs are awarded can provide perverse incentives for firms to bring private prosecutions. - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) The Bill seeks to increase the flexibility of the director of public prosecutions in appointing Crown - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Mon 12 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) subsections (E1A) and (E1B) a person cannot commit an offence if the person is—(a) an individual forced - Speech Link
2: Sarah Pochin (RUK - Runcorn and Helsby) We will end up with British tenants being evicted, rents being forced up and the already limited housing - Speech Link
3: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) They have answered our call to fight for our country, but they are forced to leave their spouses behind - Speech Link
4: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) While they wait, asylum seekers are trapped in limbo, unable to work or rebuild their lives and forced - Speech Link