Debates between Stella Creasy and Christopher Chope during the 2017-2019 Parliament

Wed 5th Sep 2018
Voyeurism (Offences) (No. 2) Bill
Commons Chamber

3rd reading: House of Commons & Report stage: House of Commons

Voyeurism (Offences) (No. 2) Bill

Debate between Stella Creasy and Christopher Chope
3rd reading: House of Commons & Report stage: House of Commons
Wednesday 5th September 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stella Creasy Portrait Stella Creasy
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I feel the need to stand up for the members of the Committee, having been a member of it myself, and to reflect that the discussions we had in Committee about treating misogyny as a hate crime did not receive Front-Bench support. That made me, as a Back-Bench Member scrutinising the Bill, reflect on what more could be done to win that argument. It is not always a good thing to be told no.

Christopher Chope Portrait Sir Christopher Chope
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I have nothing but praise for the hon. Lady. Fortunately, the Opposition Whips, who are represented on the Selection Committee, obviously did not think it was necessary to allow the Bill to proceed without any amendment. It is worth putting on record that, during that Committee debate, the official Opposition spokesman said:

“The Opposition support the Bill completely, and will not propose any amendments.”––[Official Report, Second Reading Committee, 2 July 2018; c. 17.]

At that stage, the Opposition were blindly supporting the Bill, rather than being prepared to examine exactly how it might be improved.