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Written Statements
Victims of Abuse: NHS Specialist Support - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Non-abusing parents and carers also receive counselling, practical help and guidance, enabling them to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Puberty Suppressants Trial - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) not taking puberty-suppressing hormones, and it will gather evidence directly from young people, parents - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) I was uncomfortable with that, too, is because I had to look children and young people, and their parents - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) With our children’s mental health services at breaking point and parents at their wits end trying to - Speech Link
4: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) I have had to deal with parents who have suffered loss and bereavement. - Speech Link
5: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Friend the Member for Pendle and Clitheroe (Jonathan Hinder), that the parents of trans young people - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) Such honest psycho- therapists offer counselling and help to their clients or patients and generally - Speech Link
2: None involves the quack therapists persuading their young clients that they have been abused by their parents - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) I have had in mind the young adult women whose experiences were brought to my attention by their parents - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Psychotherapy and counselling services carry a similar risk; they put patients in extremely open and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) era of austerity under that Government, took away the funding that we had used for a child rape counselling - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) Is the strategy going to emphasise in any way the role of parents in trying to protect their sons from - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) vital part, as do the tech companies that have been identified, but absolutely there is a need for parents - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Acquired Brain Injury Action Plan - Thu 04 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) cost is in lives disrupted, plans abandoned and ambitions jettisoned as a result of brain injury; in parents - Speech Link
2: Charlotte Cane (LD - Ely and East Cambridgeshire) After significant advocacy from their parents and the staff at Fen House, the funding was extended. - Speech Link
3: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) They have been fighting for several years but have never been granted one.Over the years, Imran’s parents - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) When the charity provides counselling services, it has to do so online from outside the county because - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) I agree that parents have a responsibility to look after their own children, but life is a bit more complicated - Speech Link
2: Antonia Bance (Lab - Tipton and Wednesbury) No child is responsible for the actions of their parents. - Speech Link
3: Marie Goldman (LD - Chelmsford) It is parents and children that must be at the heart of any reform, not cost cutting, but I worry that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Domestic Abuse: Children - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Richard Quigley (Lab - Isle of Wight West) is protected, that court-ordered safeguards are robust, and that trauma support for newly single parents - Speech Link
2: Leigh Ingham (Lab - Stafford) Ending the assumption that contact with both parents is automatically in a child’s best interests is - Speech Link
3: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) My office often refers families to them, whether for counselling, for children recovering from abuse - Speech Link
4: Jess Asato (Lab - Lowestoft) With limited emotional trauma-informed support from counselling services for me, the caregiver, and my - Speech Link
5: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) Tony was just 41 days old when he was so severely abused by his birth parents that both his legs were - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) One thing that would make it most useful is to deal with parents. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) The real point being made today, if I might remind Minister, is about helping the parents. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 21 Nov 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) Both my parents died when I was a child. - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) living in poverty may fear becoming a burden to family or may lack the means to access pain relief, counselling - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) The parents have been looking after him from childhood through to all his treatment, doing all they can - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children with Serious Neurological Conditions - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: James Asser (Lab - West Ham and Beckton) debate after hearing the moving testimony of my constituent, Shelina, a mother who, like so many parents - Speech Link
2: James Asser (Lab - West Ham and Beckton) In the early weeks and months after a child’s diagnosis, many parents simply do not know where to turn - Speech Link
3: James Asser (Lab - West Ham and Beckton) Parents are required to repeat the diagnosis so many times. - Speech Link