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Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) There are exceptions to protect national security, vulnerable witnesses, victims of sexual offences and - Speech Link
2: None Meanwhile, nearly 40% of all recorded crimes go unsolved, and fewer than one in 10 violent or sexual - Speech Link
3: None Fraud arrests have fallen by 64% since 2015, despite soaring offences, with some officers lacking the - Speech Link
4: None Without robust training to recognise offences, secure evidence and build chargeable cases, these aims - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None should be.(2) In this section “relevant offence” means an offence listed in Schedule 22B (Relevant offences - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) So, through no fault of their own, children’s convictions for offences that ought to have been spent - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) That is specifically about transport-related convictions of young people. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Mobile Phones and Social Media: Use by Children - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) We have also made intimate image abuse and cyber-flashing priority offences. - Speech Link
2: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Friend shows the courage of her convictions and the experience she brings to this House. - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Wetherby and Easingwold) We have censorship for films, which is not necessarily for violent or sexual content and sometimes for - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) If a protest contains people who are wanted for violent offences, sexual offences or other serious crimes - Speech Link
2: None There has emerged what can only be described as two-tier policing of these offences. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green (XB - Life peer) There are offences such as stirring up racial or religious hatred. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) First, there are ordinary criminal offences—assault, criminal damage, harassment and public order offences—where - Speech Link
5: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) This would remove offences of stirring up hatred under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Jury Trials - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) on that backlog.The Government propose to abolish the right to trial by jury for a vast range of offences - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) offences, including rape.”The Minister’s example about a bottle of whisky is therefore not appropriate - Speech Link
3: Pam Cox (Lab - Colchester) Men of property, who gave verdicts in trials on a wide range of alleged offences. - Speech Link
4: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) such as criminal damage and common assault summary only, removing juries for those offences? - Speech Link
5: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Those became summary-only offences in 1988—they were not subject to juries at all. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None offence, within the meaning of section 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, or (j) the offender has been - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) That is not because we do not take the issue of sexual offences extremely seriously—we do, just as we - Speech Link
3: None Of course, sexual offences include some of the most serious offences there are, and they will remain - Speech Link
4: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) For sexual offences and domestic abuse, immediate public protection should take precedence over other - Speech Link
5: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) We accept that sexual offences are serious offences, but there are many other serious offences as well - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) Last year, one in every eight women was a victim of domestic abuse, stalking or sexual assault. - Speech Link
2: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) According to data from the Ministry of Justice, foreign nationals make up a third of all convictions - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Sections 4A and 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 obviously create two specific criminal offences, but the - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) To remove from these offences behaviour that causes alarm would mean that behaviour that frightens or - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer) The naming of offences is extremely important in order for people to feel able to come forward. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) Some honour-based offences are criminal offences, as we know: they involve murder. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) offences against a child. - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) relating to domestic or family-related abuse, sexual offences or child criminal exploitation in their - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Could a convicted sex offender obtain a GRC while serving a prison sentence for sexual offences? - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) It would serve to bar those who commit sexual offences from obtaining a gender recognition certificate - Speech Link
3: None Proposed new Section 93I of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 will create a power for the Secretary of State - Speech Link
4: None The remaining government amendments to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 are minor and consequential. - Speech Link