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Grand Committee
Pakistan: UK Aid - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) They describe women and girls being sold into marriage or prostitution.We heard of enslaved children - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Guildford (Bshp - Bishops) Complaints about abduction, rape, forced conversion and forced marriage are frequently given short shrift - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) I would be grateful if the Minister could confirm that child labour, child and forced marriage, gender-based - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) conversion and forced marriage, and, as the noble Lord, Lord Alton, highlighted, violence and attacks - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Lesbian Visibility Week - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) To go from campaigning against section 28, to stop LGBTQIA+ people being forced to hide, to holding a - Speech Link
2: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) have had to choose between buying a house or having a baby—a decision that couples should never be forced - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) I am proud that I can stand up to speak for the lesbians who reject the forced teaming of lesbians with - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Mention was made of the equal marriage debates that we had in this Chamber. - Speech Link
5: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry), using problematic language such as “deluded” and “forced - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) First, he saved me from any obligation to explain the meaning of marriage value. - Speech Link
2: None On the deferment rate designed to replace marriage value, I fear that it can become marriage value by - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The main reason why people—certainly me—are forced to buy leasehold flats is that they are cheaper than - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) projects as tenants’ right to buy, in which charitable housing associations were excepted as not being forced - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) non-litigation costs has always been that, in enfranchisement or lease extension claims, a landlord is being forced - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) They will be separated and forced to live apart if they cannot meet the threshold. As my hon. - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) It is a pleasure to be called so early in this debate on what is effectively a Tory means test on marriage - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Parents forced into single parenthood must reduce involvement in the wider community, and children separated - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) McDonald) talked about this policy being a means test on marriage. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Access to Redress Schemes - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) evasive and oft-denied justice, which caused its own damage, including most recently the end of my marriage - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) relation to an independent compensation scheme in that particular scenario was that the will of the House forced - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) private property for generations to come, and improve the lives of millions of home owners who have been forced - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) The first is about marriage value. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) Some 95% of flats are leasehold; this legal structure is a forced condition of sale for an increasing - Speech Link
4: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) believe that anybody who has freely entered into a contract with another well-advised party should be forced - Speech Link
5: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) Clause 98 to insist on a redress scheme, but how much better it would be if assets in new estates were forced - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The growing violence is causing a displacement crisis as more and more Christians are forced to flee - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Often illiterate, they rarely earn enough to subsist, much less to clear the loans that they are forced - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) Villagers are forced to move onto the next village. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act, which governs marriage in the Muslim community, contains numerous - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) These events have increased the risk of communal tensions and stoked perceptions of forced displacement - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Because they have forced NHS doctors and nurses out on the worst strikes the NHS has ever seen, and the - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Over the past few years, local authorities have made £1 billion in cuts to arts funding, forced by Tory - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) music venues were lost in 2023, according to the Music Venue Trust, and 15 festivals have already been forced - Speech Link
4: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) local authorities with serious, statutory duties for children’s services and adult social care being forced - Speech Link
5: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) They should now emphasise marriage, too, to a greater degree. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 legalised same-sex marriages at a time when the party of the - Speech Link
2: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) will join its neighbour Estonia in legalising same-sex marriage this year. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) before us—all the LGBT people who made great contributions to the world around them, but were sadly forced - Speech Link