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Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) That blatant disregard for accountability exposes the shortcomings in the justice system and underscores - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) young women, and especially young girls? - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We have worked within the UN human rights system to raise concerns and build international support to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None I express my deep gratitude for the efforts of all those working in the criminal justice system: prisons - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) means there is £0.5 billion less money for the justice system in the next two-year period. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) Recognising the importance of custody as one of the tools in our penal system, we did not introduce wholesale - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) look at our penal system. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) in the justice system. - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) All of us, in our different ways, have had different experiences of the prison system, the courts system - Speech Link
4: Lord Clarke of Nottingham (Con - Life peer) The problem is that the Parole Board is made up of real-life men and women with a very heavy responsibility - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None and women who were sentenced as children in line with other statutory provisions, such as when convictions - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) our judicial and penal system are undermined.This group is going to undergo a further shock. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Prison Reform Trust, and I would add the Howard League for Penal Reform and UNGRIPP, in particular, - Speech Link
4: None Look at those young women who suffered at the hands of the grooming gangs in the north of England while - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None We immediately announced sanctions against six individuals heading up the penal colony where Mr Navalny - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) in his prisons or in other parts of the world. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) He touched on an important issue: it is about not just the transport system but the recreational element - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None and women and imposes a sentence of up to two years imprisonment, and Tanzania’s penal code criminalises - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) , women, children, and the disabled. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) The effective system has to be in place, because that is what the treaty says; the effective system is - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Death of Alexei Navalny - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Putin’s Russia imprisoned him on fabricated charges, poisoned him and sent him to an Arctic penal colony - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) He is yet another victim of the oppressive system that President Putin has built. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) In a way, these murders are themselves signs of the weakness and the fragile nature of the regime in - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) for the most basic fundamental freedoms that we now enjoy, including the right of women to vote, which - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion and Belief in Nigeria - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I remember being outraged when I first heard about Boko Haram’s actions against women and children and - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) given that the country’s quota system for state revenue distribution privileges the comparatively more - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) sharia penal codes are constitutional. - Speech Link
4: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) of the young women who are being worked with in order to engage with local communities—but there is - Speech Link
5: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) have also targeted Christians, including through the large-scale abduction of women and children. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) , to protect the weak, the children and the vulnerable young women, and to smash the criminal gangs whose - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) the system of checks and balances in the system, quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) It also needs to be a system rooted in a system of international law and respect—a system our great country - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We are grateful to the Government of Rwanda for hosting these men, women and children”. - Speech Link
5: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) The penal code criminalises same-sex sexual activity and individuals found guilty of engaging in such - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) of that huge imbalance of power in the leasehold system. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Clause 30 substitutes existing section 25 of the 1985 Act, which includes penal provisions dealing with - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) way in which a landlord would be able to game the system, because they would not be able to operate - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) That is why we have included measures in the Bill to rebalance the system, but we do not necessarily - Speech Link
5: None and women of our country, I could not in good conscience vote with the Government at this point, unless - Speech Link