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Westminster Hall
Child Maintenance Service - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Another set of recommendations in our report was about domestic abuse. - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) The first is domestic abuse cases about which many Members have spoken so eloquently. - Speech Link
3: Alison McGovern (Lab - Wirral South) Anyone can find themselves a victim of domestic abuse, but unfortunately, domestic abuse tends to work - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) abuse, following the Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Act 2023 receiving Royal Assent.In addition - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None abuse within the meaning defined in section 1 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021;“specified stalking offence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Abuse Bill and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, we have repeatedly asked for more protection - Speech Link
3: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) I spoke in the Domestic Abuse Bill when that came through. This has to be the end of it all. - Speech Link
4: None Abuse Act 2021 introduced provisions for domestic abuse protection orders. - Speech Link
5: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) They are not all stalking-related and domestic abuse-related cases; they go wider than that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill
2nd reading - Fri 23 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) Bill, I believe there may be scope for further amendments about the definition of a SLAPP, so that domestic - Speech Link
2: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) As we have heard, SLAPPs are an abuse of our courts and our laws by corrupt individuals who seek to stifle - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) AI firms are committing large-scale abuse of copyrighted material, using copyrighted images and pieces - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Now that the Government have moved to repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, there remains - Speech Link
3: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Saje Scotland, a domestic violence charity, was unable to access funding, so the evidence of the need - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) Friend is quite right to raise the issue of domestic homicide. - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Last week, I visited IDAS—Independent Domestic Abuse Services—which is an outstanding organisation supporting - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) She will know how much we are doing on victim support, particularly in terms of sexual and domestic abuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) law before the UK Courts. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) There are no protests or marches against Iran and its horrendous abuse of women and use of the death - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) However, there is the huge problem of a spike in anti-Semitic abuse targeting Jewish students—as described - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) All are enforceable in our courts. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None LGBT individuals can experience discrimination and abuse, including from local authorities. - Speech Link
2: None There is evidence of ill treatment and abuse. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) The point is that, at that stage, argument before the domestic courts would be academic. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Therefore, in addition to stripping our domestic courts of their jurisdiction over such important matters - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None We are confident of the safety of Rwanda, and therefore the aim of the Bill is to prevent domestic courts - Speech Link
2: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) It usurps the role of domestic courts by not permitting them to do their job, tying their hands by not - Speech Link
3: None That is pretty much all that our domestic courts will be able to use if this Bill passes in its current - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) He emphasised that the domestic courts are usurped within the Bill.There has been a lot of discussion - Speech Link
5: None It is a compromise between the value of human rights scrutiny by our domestic courts and the preservation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) “spy cops” scandal shows what goes wrong when a police unit goes rogue and the state compounds the abuse - Speech Link
2: Lord Hope of Craighead (XB - Life peer) , particularly the appointment of a Victims’ Commissioner, under the now repealed Section 48 of the Domestic - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) But large sectors of our public system—whether it is health, education or the courts—already use, and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Conversion Therapy Prohibition (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Bill [HL] - Fri 09 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) This means that interpretations are likely to be highly subjective, as well as being left to the courts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It is therefore useful to consider conversion therapy to be a similar experience to domestic abuse in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) surprised at the number of domestic violence and abuse cases that involve the first beating for being - Speech Link
4: Lord Trevethin and Oaksey (XB - Excepted Hereditary) is not so much a risk of convictions and draconian penalties being imposed by the court, because the courts - Speech Link