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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) , will greatly increase racial disparity in the justice system, but not for rape? - Speech Link
2: None They were Dr Janes, legal director of the Howard League for Penal Reform; Dr Paradine, chief executive - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) Concordat on women in the criminal justice system, as well as the recommendations of the Farmer Review - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Tue 15 Jun 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) diverging impact in practice: two nine year sentences should carry the same penal weight; it should - Speech Link
2: None it, has a real risk of making racial inequalities in the justice system worse. - Speech Link
3: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) of black, Asian and minority ethnic people in the criminal justice system? - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) First, as Women in Prison points out in its helpful briefing:“In order to be considered for a problem-solving - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 20 May 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) and in part by delays that were in the system beforehand. - Speech Link
2: None We work with women in communities and prisons, and campaign for the rights of women in prison.Nina Champion - Speech Link
3: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) to divert women, and others, from the system is not played out in its provisions. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 18 May 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) MayUntil no later than 4.15 pmThe Law SocietyThursday 20 MayUntil no later than 5 pmHoward League for Penal - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) the criminal justice system, which is also under strain—where we have to work with victims as best as - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) Q How confident are you that the proposed two-tier system of cautions will be practical for police officers - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) Far too often, my colleagues feel that the wider criminal justice system lets them down. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 18 May 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bishops - Bishops) In my few minutes, I shall briefly mention women in the criminal justice system, the Police, Crime Sentencing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) , spoke of women in the criminal justice system, about which I, too, am concerned. - Speech Link
3: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) president of the Howard League for Penal Reform. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
2nd reading Day 1 - Mon 15 Mar 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) Basically, many of those who end up in the criminal justice system and, indeed, in prison have chaotic - Speech Link
2: Harriet Harman (LAB - Camberwell and Peckham) Now there are women in government, in the Home Office and in the Cabinet. - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) issue, the all-party parliamentary group on women in the penal system, which I co-chair with the hon - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) I welcome the sensitivity in the Bill in terms of the interactions of young people with our justice system - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Anti-slavery Projects: Commonwealth - Thu 04 Mar 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Chidgey (LDEM - Life peer) The CHRI stresses that the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the weaknesses in the system for protection - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) trafficking, including among the victims of the caste system which persists in India today. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) greatly increased, with the increase in the number of vulnerable women and children, especially those - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) The Work in Freedom programme helps to prevent trafficking and exploitation of women working in domestic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Grooming Gangs - Wed 03 Feb 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) as does Inspire Women. - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) group on women in the penal system. - Speech Link
3: Simon Fell (CON - Barrow and Furness) I also do not think it is unreasonable when people express a lack of faith in the system, as they have - Speech Link
4: Tracy Brabin (LAB - Batley and Spen) Surely the Home Office should put in place a system that does not involve forces going to Ministers, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 4th sitting (Hansard) - Wed 03 Feb 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None Once they are in a system, the system must share their circumstances across the different agencies, so - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bishops - Bishops) A second theme is the number of women coming into contact with the criminal justice system who have experienced - Speech Link
3: Lord Bradley (LAB - Life peer) system, of the particularly high prevalence of mental health need among women in prison. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Relations with Qatar - Thu 10 Dec 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) Members that there have been some changes to normal practice in order to support the new call list system - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) With the abolition of the kafala system and new laws introducing a minimum wage for the first time in - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) Frankly, having women in politics civilises nations. - Speech Link
4: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) But in January 2020, a subsequent law amending the Qatari penal code authorised the imprisonment of—I - Speech Link