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Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) First, could we all agree to drop this use of “feudal” as a term of abuse? - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) John Lyon’s Charity exists to fund children and young people’s services, particularly in nine north and - Speech Link
3: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) This arrangement is ripe for abuse. - Speech Link
4: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) This reputation has allowed us to build a strong domestic and foreign direct investment environment. - Speech Link


Other Business
Arbitration Bill [HL]
Lords Special Public Bill Committee: Part 1 - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Mendelsohn (Lab - Life peer) the ritual of divorce.The process becomes particularly objectionable when issues such as access to children - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) This clause seeks to remove the special provisions in relation to domestic arbitration from the Act, - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) complex cross-border disputes are equipped and empowered to safeguard their process against any misuse or abuse - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 was transformative with the protections it gave to domestic abuse victims - Speech Link
2: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) Domestic abuse has no place in modern society or any society. - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) There is a comprehensive package of support for domestic abuse victims. - Speech Link
4: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) Abuse Commissioner labelled the plans as“dangerous to domestic abuse victims”.Is the Minister satisfied - Speech Link


Written Statements
Supporting Families Annual Report 2024 - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) programme—funds local authorities to join up local services to help families combat problems such as domestic - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Further, domestic courts would normally consider the rights under the domestic law implementing a treaty - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) If, for instance, you are engaging with the children of a voter—at 14, they are children—is that democratic - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) current regime.A number of stakeholders have argued that the new wording is too subjective and is open to abuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) Many need to be addressed quickly—for example, cyberattacks and synthetic child sexual abuse, as well - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) not just here in the UK but in the United States and other areas around the world, we will see the abuse - Speech Link
3: Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Con - Excepted Hereditary) catastrophic or even existential risks to humanity within our lifetimes … We should immediately implement domestic - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) someone who generally focuses on education from these Benches, this is not least in the protection of children - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) spending of councils with social care responsibilities was spent on social care of both adults and children - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) and adults, the homeless, the voluntary sector, domestic abuse victims and the leisure and arts sectors - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) As we push younger and younger children through the pathway as we aspire to win Olympic and Paralympic - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) surrounding the awarding process, and the adoption of a zero-tolerance approach towards human rights abuse - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) is not being done for the right reason.I will finish with the words of somebody who has been part of abuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None I will start with domestic law. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) of modern slavery and we will continue to identify and support those who have suffered intolerable abuse - Speech Link
3: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) So far, I think that we have heard of only two cases of abuse out of the thousands of people who have - Speech Link
4: Lord German (LD - Life peer) The key here is not adults being wrongly assessed as children, but children being wrongly treated as - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) That draconian law, which is a stain on the country’s human rights record, has fuelled decades of abuse - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) It has an almost obsessive desire to educate its children to ensure that they are the future doctors, - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) With domestic justice processes being so long delayed and denied, we must also look at alternative routes - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) viability of the approach to ensure that UK assistance is in line with our values and consistent with our domestic - Speech Link