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Commons Chamber
Sexual Offences (Pardons Etc) Bill
2nd reading: House of Commons - Fri 21 Oct 2016
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) In the 1980s, the tabloids screamed abuse about gay men and AIDS, and it was routine to conflate homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Craig Whittaker (CON - Calder Valley) The decriminalisation of homosexuality is one example: it was Churchill’s Government who commissioned - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) It was used by the police for many convictions right up until 2003. - Speech Link
4: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) Those persons could include about 16,000 living individuals with convictions for homosexuality, and many - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sexual Offences (Pardons Etc) Bill - Fri 21 Oct 2016
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) the past seems completely incoherent.The Wolfenden committee concluded that offences in relation to homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) It is 49 years since homosexuality was decriminalised in England, 36 years since it was decriminalised - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) In a country where homosexuality has been decriminalised and civil partnership is now legal, for the - Speech Link
4: Sam Gyimah (LDEM - East Surrey) Homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967. - Speech Link
5: Sam Gyimah (LDEM - East Surrey) Those unjust convictions are a matter of the deepest regret. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sexual Violence in Conflict (Select Committee Report) - Mon 10 Oct 2016
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bishops - Bishops) Currently that is woeful, which is why there are so few convictions. - Speech Link
2: Lord Black of Brentwood (CON - Life peer) compounded by the fact that, in many countries which have been the scenes of conflict and violence, homosexuality - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Investigatory Powers Bill - Tue 15 Mar 2016
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Andy Burnham (LAB - Leigh) exaggerated to the biggest unresolved case of this kind—the 1972 national building workers’ strike and the convictions - Speech Link
2: Andy Burnham (LAB - Leigh) I will come to that very point, but these are not historical matters, because the convictions I just - Speech Link
3: Andy Burnham (LAB - Leigh) But it is relevant, because those convictions still stand to this day. - Speech Link
4: Scott Mann (CON - North Cornwall) In 1967, for instance, the House rightly passed the Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised homosexuality - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Bill - Mon 11 Jan 2016
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (CON - Life peer) It repeals two provisions regarding homosexuality in the armed forces that are inconsistent with the - Speech Link
2: Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (CON - Life peer) When sections 146 and 147 were enacted, it was Government policy that homosexuality was incompatible - Speech Link
3: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) Government do not regularly collect or publish statistics on the number of allegations, prosecutions or convictions - Speech Link
4: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) Front-Bench team, and of course I support and admire hugely his passionate defence of the provisions on homosexuality - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Bill - Wed 16 Dec 2015
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) referred from the service police forces;(b) how many of these cases were prosecuted; and(c) how many convictions - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) possible or desirable to make assumptions about the level or severity of allegations, prosecutions or convictions - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) the armed forces in the Sexual Offences Act 1967.Clearly, that has been superseded by the fact that homosexuality - Speech Link
4: Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (CON - Life peer) They have no practical effect and their existence is inconsistent with the Department’s policy on homosexuality - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) three things”,he has said,“that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Mark Pritchard (CON - The Wrekin) If people really have the courage of their convictions —whether they be members of the National Front - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universities: Freedom of Speech - Thu 26 Nov 2015
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) universities, speakers rejected the idea of freedom of speech and called for the death penalty for homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Ely (Bishops - Bishops) Where the clash of ideas flows from strongly held moral and ethical convictions, it is even more important - Speech Link
3: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) Visiting speakers with heretical views about feminism or homosexuality are also preceded by trigger warnings - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Armed Forces Bill - Tue 24 Nov 2015
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None referred from the service police forces;(b) how many of these cases were prosecuted; and(c) how many convictions - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) include the number of cases referred to the service police, how many cases are prosecuted and how many convictions - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Homosexuality is clearly no longer an instant dismissal offence, and I think that that is broadly supported - Speech Link
4: Kris Hopkins (CON - Keighley) They have no legal effect and their existence is inconsistent with the Department’s policy on homosexuality - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill [HL] - Tue 23 Jun 2015
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pitkeathley (LAB - Life peer) amendment acknowledges that some charities need positively to seek trustees with experience of, even convictions - Speech Link
2: None using this power where someone is serving as a charity trustee who is clearly unsuitable, given former convictions - Speech Link
3: Lord Bridges of Headley (CON - Life peer) asked whether a person could be disqualified on the basis of an overseas conviction in a country where homosexuality - Speech Link