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Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) abuse services in England: £238 million for community-based services and £189 million for refuges. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) The charity that I run operates a specialist domestic abuse service. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) I raised this during the passage of the Domestic Abuse Bill. - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The landmark Domestic Abuse Act 2021 acknowledged, for the first time, the appalling damage that domestic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Procurement (British Goods and Services) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Regulations 2015, which relates to excluding suppliers who are not compliant with international and domestic - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) organisations and provides local expert holistic services for women, children and LGBT survivors of domestic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Violence Refuges: Charities and Local Government - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Of course, some victims of domestic abuse are children, in addition to the females—or males, depending - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as a founder and patron of Survivors Against Domestic Abuse. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Some £3.3 million has been committed over the next three years to support delivery of Domestic Abuse - Speech Link
4: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, as the Minister says, there is currently no sign of domestic abuse being overcome and things - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day: Language in Politics - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Dawn Butler (Lab - Brent Central) That approach needs to be replaced with responsible reporting that tackles the root of domestic abuse - Speech Link
2: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) I can assure her that I have met ministerial colleagues, but also the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, and - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) to craft exemptions or exceptions so as to ensure that any particular conduct, including conduct in domestic - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Lab - Life peer) Time and again this has been done, whether in hospitals, mental hospitals or women’s refuges; there have - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) It is interesting that we have introduced the whole understanding of coercive conduct into domestic violence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) One problem of the Domestic Abuse Act is that it has downgraded non-domestic stalking. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) and more generally for domestic abuse victims and survivors. - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and domestic abuse evolve. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) on Domestic Abuse and Violence, I have been struck by how often the domestic abuse sector has referred - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) ; domestic workers are very vulnerable to this abuse. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (Con - Ribble Valley) abuse” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2020;“victim” has the meaning - Speech Link
2: None by the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. - Speech Link
3: None The Government’s Domestic Abuse Act 2021 granted the Domestic Abuse Commissioner comparable powers, so - Speech Link
4: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) abuse services, considering both counselling and advocacy services and refuges. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) We have implemented comprehensive modern slavery and domestic abuse laws, and outlawed insidious harms - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) That is not on its own, but in consultation with the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, the Victims Commissioner - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) We placed the safety of domestic abuse victims at the heart of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) Surely domestic abuse and stalking are serious offences, yet they are not excluded from early release - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 17 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) have set out should be set out in statutory guidance, because the wording of the amendment is open to abuse - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) that Lords amendment 1B would incorporate the various conventions listed in the amendment into our domestic - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) This Government are working tirelessly with international and domestic partners to tackle human trafficking - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) Beyond that, there is a strong evidence to show that it is the precisely the hostility towards refuges - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) economic stress around the world, wars, environmental degradation and destruction, and human rights abuse - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th sitting - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) Support is provided to migrant victims of domestic abuse in the UK through our destitution domestic violence - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) Lady’s amendment recognises, such as victims of domestic violence and domestic abuse who lash out after - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) abuse’ has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2020;‘victim’ has the meaning - Speech Link
4: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) abuse by partners or family members: they remain unprotected and vulnerable to domestic abuse within - Speech Link
5: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) victims of domestic abuse. - Speech Link
6: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) victims of domestic abuse. - Speech Link
7: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) victims of domestic abuse. - Speech Link
8: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) victims of domestic abuse. - Speech Link
9: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) victims of domestic abuse. - Speech Link