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Lords Chamber
Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill - Wed 28 Jan 2015
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Young people in the 18 to 24 age group make up 30% of terrorist-related convictions. - Speech Link
2: None university recently decided not to allow a certain speaker on its campus because of their extreme views on homosexuality - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Religion and Belief: British Public Life - Thu 27 Nov 2014
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Fowler (CB - Life peer) The fact is that in almost 80 countries of the world, homosexuality remains a criminal offence. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) focused entirely on Islamic themes.Of course we must ensure that parents’ religious and philosophical convictions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Recall of MPs Bill - Mon 27 Oct 2014
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Primarolo (LAB - Life peer) route for recall for members of the public independent of any parliamentary committee, or criminal convictions - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Parliament or a local council, or for any other elected office, is that they have the courage of their convictions - Speech Link
3: None better and more civilised place: the campaign to abolish capital punishment; the campaign to legalise homosexuality - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Recall of MPs Bill - Tue 21 Oct 2014
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: David Winnick (LAB - Walsall North) punishment and who won the day after a long and hard campaign, and those who fought for the reform of homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) boiled down the grounds of recall to just two small conditions, the first of which applies to criminal convictions - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) Members have campaigned on issues such as abortion or ending the criminalisation of homosexuality, but - Speech Link
4: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) Parliament have had to take positions that were in advance of public opinion on social issues such as homosexuality - Speech Link
5: Thomas Docherty (LAB - Dunfermline and West Fife) Along with Lord Arran, he was a great champion of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Mon 21 Jul 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) They say:“We had to rewrite the ending to point out that the convictions of tens of thousands of other - Speech Link
2: Lord Lexden (CON - Life peer) indecent.It is well known that the legislation as introduced into Parliament had nothing whatever to do with homosexuality - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) and caused so much unhappiness.A disregard results in a person’s relevant convictions being removed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Assisted Dying Bill [HL] - Fri 18 Jul 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury (CON - Life peer) Indeed, as we all know, there are many distinguished people with deep religious convictions, and many - Speech Link
2: Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury (CON - Life peer) But are these people who could never contemplate taking their own lives because of their convictions - Speech Link
3: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) I recognise that there are powerful arguments and deeply held convictions on both sides of the debate - Speech Link
4: Lord Dholakia (LDEM - Life peer) faced many serious issues: the abolition of slavery, the reform of abortion laws, the reform of laws on homosexuality - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
House of Lords Reform (No. 2) Bill - Fri 28 Feb 2014
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Dan Byles (CON - North Warwickshire) They are, in my view, unnecessary.Amendments 15 and 16 deal with convictions in the United Kingdom and - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) Uganda has been in the news recently for its stringent laws against homosexuality. - Speech Link
3: Greg Clark (CON - Tunbridge Wells) Friend the Member for North Warwickshire and the point about foreign convictions, the mood of the House - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health: End of Life - Thu 12 Dec 2013
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) our present law on assisted dying with the same wry surprise as we now look back on our past laws on homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Lord Hylton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) views of the great world religions, I conclude that humanists would be unwise to impose their genuine convictions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
House of Lords Reform (No. 2) Bill - Fri 18 Oct 2013
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Greg Clark (CON - Tunbridge Wells) there has been a degree of concern that the provisions, for example, on the consequences of criminal convictions - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) with putting the House of Lords pretty much on a par with the House of Commons in terms of criminal convictions - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) For example, in some countries, homosexuality is still illegal and is persecuted strongly. - Speech Link
4: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) someone seeking an appeal in future through the administrative process by which people can have their convictions - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights (Commonwealth) - Wed 11 Sep 2013
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) could include punishing homosexuality with the death penalty. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) It recommended decriminalising homosexuality. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Percy (CON - Brigg and Goole) In response to comments from a Cameroonian delegate regarding homosexuality, in which she stated that - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) As a result, 95% of convictions and punishments for adultery are given to women, because it is obviously - Speech Link
5: Lord Swire (CON - Life peer) Lady raised the proposed anti-homosexuality Bill in Uganda. - Speech Link