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Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) the Crime and Policing Act 2025 (assault of a retail worker) or for shoplifting under section 1 of the - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) behaviour, retail and knife crime, and the epidemic of violence against women and girls, and to restore - Speech Link
3: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Hitchin) unions, including USDAW, and also of the real sentiment of my constituents that these crimes need to - Speech Link
4: None of the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, so far as relating to the Insolvency Service, of grade - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Police Presence on High Streets - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) Retail workers endured 124 incidents of violence or abuse every single day, yet only 32% of those incidents - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) offence of assaulting a retail worker. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) offence of assaulting a retail worker. - Speech Link
4: Rosie Wrighting (Lab - Kettering) time.It is unacceptable that over 2,000 incidents of violence or abuse towards retail workers are reported - Speech Link
5: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) older part of my town, from before the town of Didcot and large retail centres arose—who feel that the - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th sitting - Thu 08 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Anna Sabine (LD - Frome and East Somerset) I do not doubt any of her figures about the reduction of crimes such as hare coursing. - Speech Link
2: None section (Assault of retail worker) of the Crime and Policing Act 2025 (assault of retail worker) (“the - Speech Link
3: None The new clause would allow the authorisation in anticipation of any form of violence, not just violence - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) The scourge of the illicit tobacco trade threatens the health of UK citizens, robs the public purse of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords] - Wed 07 May 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) modern slavery,(b) victims of domestic abuse,(c) victims of gender-based violence, or(d) data subjects - Speech Link
2: Jon Trickett (Lab - Normanton and Hemsworth) the NHS be up for sale as part of negotiations with the United States on a trade deal? - Speech Link
3: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) modern slavery, domestic abuse, gender-based violence and for others at risk of serious harm if their - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Wed 23 Apr 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) Retail licensing provisions then facilitate ongoing monitoring and modification of retailer practices - Speech Link
2: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Clause 89 grants the Secretary of State expanded powers to regulate retail packaging. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The Labour Party has a proud tradition of standing against harassment of and violence against retail - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) will trigger a huge escalation of violence and abuse.The cost-benefit analysis of this Bill means there - Speech Link
5: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) depressing talk of violence, gangs, the diminution of civil rights, the breakdown of societal values - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 22 Apr 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) Tackling violence against women and girls is not just a Ministry of Justice problem to fix, but a problem - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) We recognise the traumatic impact of delays in our Crown courts on victims of violence against women - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Member’s outrage over the crimes that were committed in his community, and the fact that two of those - Speech Link
4: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) Will the independent review also examine the culture of gang-related violence and intimidation that have - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th Sitting - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) If so, why is the offence of assaulting a retail worker a summary-only offence? - Speech Link
2: None crimes as part of their exploitation. - Speech Link
3: None for crimes committed while a victim of modern slavery is too restrictive in its understanding of exploitation - Speech Link
4: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) It is a long list, but it speaks to the level of complexity involved in crimes of this nature and the - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th Sitting - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None (Assault of retail worker) of the Crime and Policing Act 2025 (assault of retail worker) (“the index - Speech Link
2: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) retail workers and place of work. - Speech Link
3: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) went on to say:“The impact of retail violence has steadily worsened, with people facing racial abuse, - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) This new offence of assaulting a retail worker will send the very strong message that violence and abuse - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Non-disclosure Agreements - Wed 02 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the use of NDAs to silence victims of abuse. - Speech Link
2: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) non-disclosure agreements without mentioning the crimes of Mohammed al-Fayed. - Speech Link
3: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield Heeley) Friend the Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen) said, the scale and nature of the crimes covered up, as - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 31 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Karen Bradley (Con - Staffordshire Moorlands) The ambition to halve the prevalence of violence against women and girls is a laudable one, but could - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) We want to halve violence against women and girls over the course of the next decade. - Speech Link
3: Josh Babarinde (LD - Eastbourne) She does not feel safe leaving as a result of the retail crime there and so gets a taxi back home in - Speech Link
4: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) One of the less widely recognised rural crimes is the use of catapults to maim and kill wildlife. - Speech Link
5: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) and to the perpetrators of those crimes, whosoever they should be and wheresoever they are. - Speech Link