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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


Commons Chamber
Gender Recognition - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We are proud to have passed the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and Turing’s law. - Speech Link
2: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) rights of foreign nationals in this country may lead to wider concerns about the mutual recognition of marriage - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) That includes forced sterilisation, something which we condemn completely. - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) reason that we have this is not that the Government supported self-ID but that before the same-sex marriage - Speech Link
5: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) know that there are lots of people in the UK who have entered into a same-sex civil partnership or marriage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Violence Against Women and Girls - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) progress through our flagship “What works to prevent violence” programme and pioneering work to end child marriage - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Since 2010, we have criminalised forced marriage; criminalised revenge porn; criminalised failing to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Refugee Family Reunion Routes: Sudan - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Meanwhile, more than 5 million have been forced from their homes, internally displaced within Sudan. - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Sixteen-year-old Adila fled to Sudan to escape persecution in Eritrea, including forced conscription - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) particularly in countries where there is no functioning administrative authority to issue a passport, a marriage - Speech Link
4: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) parents, that would create a real risk of an incentive for more children to be encouraged, or even forced - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) other things, the equal age of consent, civil partnerships—I celebrated my own some 15 years ago—equal marriage - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) We were pleased to support their legislation for same-sex marriage, although far too many Conservative - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Some were forced to remain in the closet for fear of the impact on their careers and others felt they - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) foremost in our minds.Personally, I am driven by the fact that we have come a very long way, with equal marriage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) If noble Lords are interested, it is called Equal Ever After and is about how I did same-sex marriage - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Instead, for the past 25 years, they have been increasingly forced by regulatory errors and false concepts - Speech Link