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Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) Disabled people are more likely to experience domestic abuse, with disabled women being twice as likely - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) all welcome, but the challenge is absolutely immense, with 45% of our country’s public park tennis courts - Speech Link
2: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) succeed in their jobs; they earn money; retail sales rise; consumer confidence increases; and gross domestic - Speech Link
3: Lord Shamash (Lab - Life peer) This scheme provides a sorely needed service to respond to critical issues such as homelessness, domestic - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) court renovation programme aims to renovate over 3,000 public park tennis courts to a playable standard - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 15 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Can he confirm that a remote hearing will be of benefit in domestic abuse cases? - Speech Link
2: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) The Bill will benefit those suffering from domestic abuse, particularly where restraining orders and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) abuse, and indeed set up our local organisation, Survivors Against Domestic Abuse. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) abuse, as do Generation Rent and the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance—DAHA. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) There are also serious issues regarding victims of domestic abuse where such abuse is regularly mistaken - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) abuse case”.(4) After subsection (8F) insert—“(8G) For the purposes of this section “a domestic abuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 14 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) I thought that we achieved compliance through our domestic legislation. - Speech Link
2: None It would be rather odd if we had a domestic law provision that sought to extend the legal effects of - Speech Link
3: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Genocide is a crime and, like other crimes, whether it has occurred should be decided by competent courts - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) We do not apply this to terrorism, child abuse or murder but, for some reason, the Government think it - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) It was a notorious case and it took months in the courts to decide whether he was acting as a public - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) What steps he is taking to prevent domestic abuse perpetrators from using the justice system to extend - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Section 65 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 prevents them from cross-examining their victims and requires - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) Friend takes domestic abuse very seriously, but is she aware that perpetrators all too frequently seek - Speech Link
4: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Moreover, one of the changes made under the Domestic Abuse Act gave the courts themselves the power to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Act: Northern Ireland - Tue 14 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) to have a constructive working relationship with the Irish Government when it comes to ensuring that abuse - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) I note to the Minister that this judgment came from a domestic court, not the international courts that - Speech Link
3: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) Given the muddle that the courts are creating, is not the only way out of this an urgent, short piece - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict - Tue 14 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) justice internationally are able to focus only on perpetrators at the highest levels, and national courts - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) I know from my discussions with the charity as the shadow Minister for domestic abuse and safeguarding - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) schoolgirls who were abducted 10 years ago are still in captivity, still in sexual slavery and still in domestic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Risk-based Exclusion - Mon 13 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) include one or more of the following—(a) exclusion from the Parliamentary estate;(b) exclusion from domestic - Speech Link
2: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) include one or more of the following—(a) exclusion from the Parliamentary estate;(b) exclusion from domestic - Speech Link
3: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) Friend says that if we enacted this procedure, it would be subject to challenge in the courts? - Speech Link
4: Rehman Chishti (Con - Gillingham and Rainham) I also prosecuted and defended in the criminal courts before coming to this place, and I of course accept - Speech Link
5: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Sadly, there are people who abuse their power dynamics and power relations. - Speech Link
6: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) One example we looked at was someone who was a victim of domestic abuse. - Speech Link