Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Emily Darlington Excerpts
Monday 31st March 2025

(3 days, 10 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper
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Measures in the Online Safety Act 2023 are being implemented over the course of this year. That includes the introduction this summer of measures expected to ensure that stronger action is taken to prevent young boys and children more widely from seeing inappropriate material, which can be very damaging and very extreme. We also need to work in schools to prevent abuse in relationships.

Emily Darlington Portrait Emily Darlington (Milton Keynes Central) (Lab)
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Rape victims were failed under the previous Government, and too few actually got to see the inside of a courtroom. Among those victims were the victims of Andrew Tate here in the UK, who suffered rape and other violence against them. While I know that the Home Secretary cannot comment on the current extradition notice with Romania, what message can she send to those victims, whom I have met and who will be meeting a Minister as well, about their day in court and getting justice?

Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper
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My hon. Friend will know that there is a court case under way in Romania and that issues around prosecution and extradition decisions are matters for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. I know that she has worked with victims, including in her constituency, and it is hugely important that victims of appalling crimes have a route to justice, wherever they are in the world.