Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) include a review of the cases of those service personnel who as a result of their sexuality have criminal convictions - Speech Link
2: None I am proud that the last Labour Government abolished the ban on homosexuality in the armed forces in - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) pleased to remind the House that the Government accept entirely that the historical policy prohibiting homosexuality - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Eleanor Laing (CON - Epping Forest) section—‘case papers’ includes summaries of interviews or other accounts given by the suspect, previous convictions - Speech Link
2: None veterans, so I wonder whether he and others who I know are sympathetic will keep the courage of their convictions - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) The Committee will know that the ban on homosexuality in the British armed forces was lifted in January - Speech Link
4: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) Some 21 years ago, the ban on homosexuality and LGBT+ personnel serving in the armed forces was lifted - Speech Link
5: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) So I want to put clearly on the record the fact that the historical ban on homosexuality in the armed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None It was then that it came out about his previous convictions, and I found out the truth from court and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) this Bill, introduced marriage for same-sex couples, were part of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) very conscious of the fact that in Britain the abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) sexually assaulted and forced to sign false confessions, which acted as the basis of their capital convictions - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) Under the common law in Brunei, homosexuality is already a criminal offence. - Speech Link
2: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) However, I am disappointed by his willingness to accept that the bar may be set high for convictions, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cashman (LAB - Life peer) These provisions have not been used and, as a consequence, gay and bisexual men continue to live with convictions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) that historically the military and the police have been seen as prejudiced organisations in terms of homosexuality - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Barker (LDEM - Life peer) That is because 40 out of 53 Commonwealth states criminalise homosexuality. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Manzoor (CON - Life peer) More needs to be done to stop this terrible crime, aided by more prosecutions and convictions of the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Herbert of South Downs (CON - Life peer) colonial laws that we had bequeathed to the overseas territories in relation to the criminalisation of homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Alan Duncan (CON - Rutland and Melton) been prosecuted for export control offences; in fact, there have been 23 not just prosecutions, but convictions - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) abolition of the death penalty; and changes to the law in relation to the criminalisation of abortion and homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Jim Fitzpatrick (LAB - Poplar and Limehouse) PAL was therefore quite a shift, and led to hundreds, if not thousands, of convictions over 30 years - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) It cannot possibly be right that no challenges to those convictions have been successful. - Speech Link
4: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) To reopen all cases would undermine the certainty of convictions and deny closure to victims’ families - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Stern (CB - Life peer) human rights obligations—that is, on the abolition of the death penalty and the decriminalisation of homosexuality - Speech Link
2: None As I mentioned in Committee, an example of this was to decriminalise homosexuality in certain OTs. - Speech Link
3: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) Therefore, individuals who have been involved in money laundering, have convictions or have been debarred - Speech Link