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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"I thank the noble Lord for his Question, and I know that this is not the first time he has raised this very important issue before your Lordships’ House. The Home Office began collating data on a mandatory basis in April 2019. Since then, there have been 350 FGM offences …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"On the increased protection, there is provision already on the statute book, in Section 3A of the Female Genital Mutilation Act, which is about a failure to protect girls under 16. On the civil side, the family court also has a power to impose protection orders that put in place, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"I can reassure the noble Lord that I am determined to work with the Crown Prosecution Service, which I superintend, to increase the rate of prosecutions. I am determined we do that in a joined-up way, together with other parts of government and arm’s-length bodies, to ensure there is a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"It is going to be fatal to the young girls that we all want to protect if we turn this into a political issue—I am not suggesting that the noble Lord was doing that. He has given the most recent figures, and he is right to do so because those …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"I agree entirely with the spirit of what the noble Lord has said. He will appreciate that I cannot, from this Dispatch Box on an ad hoc basis, determine what goes into the curriculum, but I am convinced that this problem is one that needs to be addressed from the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"My Lords, I am grateful for the noble Lord’s question and agree with the points that he has made...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"I thank the noble Baroness for her question. This is, of course, another aspect of honour-based abuse, and I am sure the whole House agrees that there is no honour in honour-based abuse. In the criminal justice sphere, to help to bring stronger cases in this area, the CPS and …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 01 Apr 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

"My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Wolfson and Lord Northbrook, for their amendments, and all noble Lords for their contributions. These amendments seek to provide how peerage claims in the future will be dealt with. As the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, pointed out, from his own personal experience, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Mar 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

"I am grateful to all noble Lords for their contributions, which in this group concern the appointment of specific public servants to your Lordships’ House. I will start, if I may, with the amendments that concern the conferral of peerages on serving members of the senior judiciary, tabled by the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Mar 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

"My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. Amendments 55, 62 and 97, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Inglewood and Lord Lucas, and the noble Earl, Lord Devon, all seek, in different ways, to place a duty on the Government to review and report …..."
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