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Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) Is marriage value a real thing? - Speech Link
2: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) Is marriage value a real thing? - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) Q On the point of marriage value, Mr Vitali, let us go back to free market principles. - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) first made aware of in November 2022 due to the residents of a building in Greater Manchester being forced - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House Day 1 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) For every decision maker to be forced to declare any country safe—regardless of the facts in front of - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) But people are being forced to do that by the gangs. - Speech Link
3: None If those desperate people survive the journey, they are forced to wait years for a decision on their - Speech Link
4: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) Same-sex marriage is prohibited, and LGBTQ+ people are not protected from discrimination by any specific - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) In the case from May that I talked about, a victim of multiple rapes, forced marriage and 10 years of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Home and Online Schooling - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) Some girls will be at increased risk of FGM and forced marriage. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) cases.Finally, the impetus for the provision to prohibit serving whole-life prisoners from forming a marriage - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Researchers into forced migrant survivors of sexual and gender-based violence at Birmingham University - Speech Link
3: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) having a proper statutory definition of child criminal exploitation to ensure children who have been forced - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) There has to be something better in the way of defences for women who are forced into crime and end up - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) grandmothers, many of whom are affected by the gender pay gap and a rising retirement age, yet they are often forced - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) country; families like the Bradys in Wiltshire, both parents working full time with two young children forced - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) The marriage plans of thousands of couples were dashed last week by the sudden announcement of a big - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We strongly condemn forced marriage and the forced conversion of women and girls, including in Pakistan - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) At the age of 14, Maira Shahbaz was abducted, forced into a marriage and raped. - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We continue to raise in Islamabad the issue of forced marriage and conversion with the Pakistani authorities - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) marriage and gender-based violence, discrimination and intolerance, especially against minorities, in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) For example, in Thurcroft, leaseholders were forced to represent themselves in court when the freeholder - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) that more developers choose it, rather than leasehold, for new blocks of flats—not because they are forced - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) The so-called “marriage rates” make it almost impossible for leaseholders to buy properties with fewer - Speech Link
4: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) It removes the requirement to pay marriage value, capping the treatment of ground rents at 0.1% of the - Speech Link
5: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) They are being forced into a game of poker in which the stakes could not be higher. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) We need help for families who are troubled.I declare that I am chair of a commission on forced marriage - Speech Link
2: Lord Herbert of South Downs (Con - Life peer) My Lords,“Marriage is a vital social institution. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The House will know that we introduced the marriage allowance in 2015 to recognise marriage and civil - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools: Safeguarding - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Shinkwin (Con - Life peer) landscape” because I would not be in the least bit surprised if many people saw issues such as equal marriage - Speech Link
2: Earl of Leicester (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It is about the understanding of the importance of marriage for family life, stable and loving relationships - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Developmental trauma includes children who are neglected, abused or forced to live with family violence - Speech Link