Business of the House
Debate between Jas Athwal and Caroline Nokes(5 days, 14 hours ago)
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Jas Athwal (Ilford South) (Lab)
May I, too, offer my condolences to the shadow Leader of the House?
Women’s rights have come a long way; indeed, we have had three female Prime Ministers, and we now have our first female Chancellor and a female Leader of the House. However, many women and girls in the UK are still being denied the right to feel safe in their communities, on the streets, in their homes and even online. Although charities and Governments continue to work tirelessly to combat sexual violence—indeed, our Government have a landmark mission to halve violence against women and girls—some of my constituents say that many agencies, including the police, still do not take sexual violence seriously, respect victim-survivor testimonies or take serious action to stop the harm. Will the Leader of the House provide time for a debate—
Madam Deputy Speaker (Caroline Nokes)
Order. We really do have to have shorter questions. Can the hon. Gentleman please get to his point?
Jas Athwal
Will the Leader of the House provide time for a debate on how state agencies can work to protect victim-survivors better?
Local Government Finance
Debate between Jas Athwal and Caroline Nokes(1 month, 2 weeks ago)
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Jas Athwal (Ilford South) (Lab)
On the point about inner and outer London, the problem is that outer-London boroughs are now seeing inner-London problems, the funding system is archaic and the formula is based on outdated deprivation statistics, using household numbers rather than population. This unfairly impacts boroughs such as Redbridge, which covers my constituency. It is home to many multi-generational families living under one roof—
Madam Deputy Speaker (Caroline Nokes)
Order. We simply cannot have interventions like this. They need to be spontaneous; they should not be read out from pre-prepared scripts.