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Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Herbert of South Downs (Con - Life peer) Suicide has not been a crime for over six decades, but we still think that it is wrong and we still try - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) Since we need proper government Bills to make laws on prison sentences, penalties for killing with knives - Speech Link
3: Lord Pannick (XB - Life peer) Since the enactment of the Suicide Act 1961, attempted suicide is no longer a crime. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) include children.At present, doctors feel compelled to keep people alive at all costs, because it is a crime - Speech Link
5: Lord Mitchell (Lab - Life peer) both knew that his own suicide at home could well run the risk of her being charged with committing a crime - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) with more to come; we have saved the jobs of steelworkers in Scunthorpe; and we have banned zombie knives - Speech Link
2: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) implemented to improve public health and prevent stores from being used as front businesses by organised crime - Speech Link
3: Mark Sewards (Lab - Leeds South West and Morley) House grant a debate on that in Government time, and perhaps encourage the other place to send our Crime - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) our neighbourhood policing guarantee to put more neighbourhood police on the streets, along with our Crime - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) Last week I joined Blackpool police and our police and crime commissioner, Clive Grunshaw, under the - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) During the passage of the Crime and Policing Bill, we asked the Government to stop our police having - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) and Policing Bill to crack down on the illegal sale of knives online. - Speech Link
4: Sonia Kumar (Lab - Dudley) I support the efforts of the police and crime commissioner, Simon Foster. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 02 Jul 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Natasha Irons (Lab - Croydon East) swords in their effort to tackle knife crime. - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) The ban on zombie knives and machetes came into effect last year, and the ban on ninja swords will come - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) Secondly, they would prevent the display of pointed knives in shops, but would allow safer, rounded knives - Speech Link
2: None Economic crime is now the most commonly experienced crime in the UK, accounting for more than 40% of - Speech Link
3: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) This was not only a family crime; it was a community crime. - Speech Link
4: None “Hate crime can wreck lives. - Speech Link
5: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) I turn to non-crime hate incidents. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None Knife crime has devastating consequences for our communities. - Speech Link
2: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) When domestic abuse ends in suicide, it must be recognised for what it is: a crime. - Speech Link
3: Emily Darlington (Lab - Milton Keynes Central) New clause 53 is so important in addressing this issue as the real, true crime that it is—not the crime - Speech Link
4: None Act 2007 (encouraging or assisting crime). - Speech Link
5: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) We are here to debate an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill. I hope that the hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Police Presence on High Streets - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham Erdington) rates in Birmingham, but let me be clear: crime is not inevitable. - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) We asked the shops, “Why are you not reporting the crime?” - Speech Link
3: Jessica Toale (Lab - Bournemouth West) Violent crime is down 21% on last year in Bournemouth. - Speech Link
4: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) , but the causes of crime. - Speech Link
5: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) Although it is welcome that headline figures from the crime survey for England and Wales show that crime - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment, Surrender and Compensation) (England and Wales) Order 2025 - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None They have set a target to halve knife crime. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) There are larger knives, but crime with longer swords is extremely rare, and we have again tried to be - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Friend is exactly right to raise that serious crime. - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) personally impacted by crime in the past five years. - Speech Link
3: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) That will be led by the National Crime Agency’s national economic crime centre, working closely with - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) , including knife crime. - Speech Link
5: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) They are “non-crime”. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Thu 08 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) These measures form part of the steps that we are taking to tackle knife crime. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) two or more qualifying sets of knives such as a block of knives, or one or more qualifying set together - Speech Link
3: None Knives that do not have a sharp point, such as cutlery knives, will also be exempt. - Speech Link
4: Matt Bishop (Lab - Forest of Dean) crime could become more prevalent over the coming years? - Speech Link