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Lords Chamber
Sudan - Fri 13 Sep 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) More than 10 million people have been forced to leave their homes, and recent widespread flooding has - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ashton of Upholland (Lab - Life peer) Millions of people have been forced to flee; about 8 million are within Sudan, and over 2 million are - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) They are also becoming vulnerable to child labour, child marriage and recruitment by armed groups. - Speech Link
4: Lord Loomba (XB - Life peer) It also noted the high level of child marriage in the country, with the age range for widowhood starting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 24 Jul 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) In 2008 we handled the job of the Director of Public Prosecutions, in 2018 we handled the Government - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) more.There are many things that I would love to have seen in this King’s Speech—for example, equal marriage - Speech Link
3: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) marriage and honour-based violence, but when it comes to minority-ethnic communities I notice that there - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) There are a lack of prosecutions for rape and sexual assault and threats to women politicians, and daily - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Assisted Dying - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) do not have time to cover, such as the current situation in the Crown jurisdictions, the pursuit of prosecutions - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (Con - North West Hampshire) They have not done so on gay marriage. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) Others might feel forced to take things into their own hands in violent and lonely ways. - Speech Link
4: Chloe Smith (Con - Norwich North) People are forced to take often hidden, undignified and desperate action. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conversion Practices (Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) Nevertheless, the law that he is proposing would very easily lead to exactly the prosecutions that he - Speech Link
2: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) A number of practices are illegal in this country, such as forced marriage, which is something that the - Speech Link
3: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) I thought back to when this House debated same-sex marriage in 2012. - Speech Link
4: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) No one should ever be forced to change who they are, who they love and what they believe in. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) We have taken evidence from across the United Kingdom and discovered family members forced into marriage - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Definitions are also muddled by the forced marriage of “LGB” with “TQI”. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None through trauma to help survivors to gain control of their lives, so the idea that survivors are being forced - Speech Link
2: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) In effect, victims are being forced to choose between seeking justice and their right to a private life - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) legal advice for victims as part of its comprehensive review into the use of evidence in sexual offence prosecutions - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) outlined, the Government have asked the Law Commission to examine the trial process in sexual offence prosecutions - Speech Link
5: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) children die at the hands of an abusive parent during unsupervised contact, where abuse is a factor in the marriage - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Religious Persecution and the World Watch List - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) on churches, homes and businesses, detention without trial, jailing, abduction, sexual harassment, forced - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Pakistani religious minorities face serious persecution, including forced conversions, child marriage - 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
2: None as I have just described, so they do not meet the threshold required for use as evidence in criminal prosecutions - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Does the Minister think that one day we might actually see some prosecutions in relation to those violations - Speech Link
2: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We strongly condemn forced marriage and the forced conversion of women and girls, including in Pakistan - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) At the age of 14, Maira Shahbaz was abducted, forced into a marriage and raped. - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We continue to raise in Islamabad the issue of forced marriage and conversion with the Pakistani authorities - Speech Link