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Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Apsana Begum (LAB - Poplar and Limehouse) As such, we urgently need funding for services, particularly specialist community services and specialist - Speech Link
2: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) election and advocates for greater representation within our party and beyond. - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) of the Witchcraft Act—the victims of the hunt for witches back in the early modern period in Scotland - Speech Link
4: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) as terrorism and organised crime; for safeguards on the extraction of data from victims’ phones; for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rape and Sexual Violence - Tue 08 Mar 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) Despite a record number of convictions for stalking in 2019, more than half of those convicted got community - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) over £100 million on the budget in 2010-11, and we have committed to increasing funding for all victims - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) minimum sentences for rape and stalking, to implement Labour’s survivors’ package for victims of rape - Speech Link
4: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) health, which is a vital component of our strategy to provide the tailored support that victims of rape - Speech Link


Petitions
Stalking advocates - Mon 07 Mar 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None an estimated 1.5 million victims, 977,000 women and 526,000 men; declares that stalking advocates for - Speech Link
2: None of the petitioners and take immediate action to reallocate funds to provide additional funding for stalking - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls - Wed 02 Mar 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) to provide accommodation for survivors of abuse. - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) We need police forces across the country consistently to provide stalking advocacy services for victims - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) Stalking protection orders—a piece of paper—are not an adequate shield for victims of violent, obsessive - Speech Link
4: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) We have put aside national funding of £300 million for victims, so I suggest that she has those conversations.The - Speech Link
5: Paula Barker (LAB - Liverpool, Wavertree) Does she agree that although perpetrator funding is essential, the funding that goes to the victims of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 28 Feb 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) During the passage of the Bill, the Government have already rejected minimum sentences for rape and stalking - Speech Link
2: Craig Whittaker (CON - Calder Valley) It said that such a step would potentially “prove more harmful than helpful, both to victims of violence - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) regressive rather than progressive, and would deliver less, not more, justice for female victims. - Speech Link
4: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy)—four powerful advocates balancing strength of feeling with legal - Speech Link
5: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) I was able to address one of the technical issues to provide clarity for the House earlier, and I just - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Stalking Advocates - Mon 31 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) The petition, which has more than 105,000 signatures, states:“The Government should provide more funding - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) asks the Government to increase funding to ensure that there are people advocating for victims of stalking - Speech Link
3: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) We provided funding to it between April 2020 and March 2021 to provide additional independent stalking - Speech Link
4: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) for stalking advocates. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Report stage - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) There were 1.5 million victims of stalking in 2019-20 in England and Wales. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Newlove (CON - Life peer) Listening to victims of this horrendous crime in my former role as Victims’ Commissioner—victims I am - Speech Link
3: None of us could provide a ready definition, but gender is a much more difficult concept. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (CON - Life peer) to victims of violence against women and girls, and also to efforts to tackle hate crime more broadly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Wed 15 Dec 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None Or take the case of a drug addict, hopelessly incapable of either giving up drugs or funding his habit - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) stalking and domestic abuse as lower-risk offenders? - Speech Link
3: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) The revised Code of Practice for Victims of Crime—the victims’ code—which came into force on 1 April, - Speech Link
4: None To provide reassurance to your Lordships’ House and to those campaigning for change—particularly the - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
Committee stage: 17th sitting - Tue 22 Jun 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None I hope that the Government can provide some substantive answers to these questions, because victims of - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) More funding must be given to courts to provide places for vulnerable witnesses to give evidence securely - Speech Link
3: None and Wales,(b) a member of the Faculty of Advocates,(c) a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland, or(d - Speech Link
4: None That can be for a number of reasons, but clearly we need a more empathic approach towards victims, where - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 18th sitting - Tue 22 Jun 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) special measures for victims of sexual offences. - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) It has been drafted specifically to provide for parliamentary oversight of the introduction of the recommendations - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) There is emerging evidence, particularly on the latter, that more and more victims of domestic abuse, - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) for those who commit the most serious type of stalking offences. - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) If she is asking for action, I would point to the extra £25 million VAWG-specific funding, the new offences - Speech Link