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Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 27 Jun 2017
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) better and earlier protection for victims and do more to tackle the root causes of offending behaviour - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (LAB - Life peer) In England alone, they provide 2.5 million homes for more than 5 million people. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Seccombe (CON - Life peer) Forced marriage is now a criminal offence, and there is protection for victims of stalking. - Speech Link
4: Lord Beecham (LAB - Life peer) lay magistrates and the convenience to parties, witnesses and advocates seem to be in decline, or, more - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill
Report stage: House of Commons - Fri 24 Feb 2017
Home Office

Mentions:
1: John Bercow (Speaker - Buckingham) for under paragraph 3 of Article 78 that it reserves the right to provide for non-criminal sanctions - Speech Link
2: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) We can be trusted to do the right thing by victims of stalking, as the Government have already done. - Speech Link
3: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) How about giving them a cut of the funding available?” - Speech Link
4: None who deal with the most severe cases; more than 95% of these victims are female. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Policing and Crime Bill
Report: 1st sitting: House of Lords - Wed 30 Nov 2016
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) provide for the Secretary of State to publish the independent assessment of a proposal from a PCC to - Speech Link
2: Lord Harris of Haringey (LAB - Life peer) One example concerns an individual who was arrested for stalking—a serious offence of harassment. - Speech Link
3: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) The proposals do provide for a further 12-hour extension of that detention period. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Howe of Idlicote (CB - Life peer) child victims of a sexual offence or other forms of child abuse for an assessment of their mental health - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Driven Grouse Shooting - Mon 31 Oct 2016
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Double (CON - St Austell and Newquay) Instead, it advocates some form of licensing of grouse shooting. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) stewardship funding was paid for land used for grouse shooting. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) The real victims of a ban are not caricatures; they are ordinary working people in constituencies such - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) issue of agri-environment funding has been raised. - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) We recently confirmed £300,000 of funding per annum for the NWCU for the next four years. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Domestic Abuse Victims in Family Law Courts - Thu 15 Sep 2016
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Maria Miller (CON - Basingstoke) to provide objective evidence of abuse to qualify for legal aid. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) Between 2010 and 2012, a third of local authority funding for domestic and sexual violence services was - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) These are difficult cases, but it must be possible to provide support for victims, special measures and - Speech Link
4: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) funding for women’s refuges and rape crisis centres. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Policing and Crime Bill - Mon 13 Jun 2016
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Mike Penning (CON - Hemel Hempstead) may use funding authorised under this section solely for the purpose of funding legal representation - Speech Link
2: John Bercow (Speaker - Buckingham) may use funding authorised under this section solely for the purpose of funding legal representation - Speech Link
3: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) of abuse crimes such as domestic violence, stalking, harassment or hate crime.The first of the new clauses - Speech Link
4: Andy Burnham (LAB - Leigh) equality of legal funding for families, and vote for the honouring of the promise to the victims of - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Violence against Women and Girls (Sustainable Development Goals) - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Mark Durkan (SDLP - Foyle) This places a prohibitive burden of proof on victims of sexual violence.”It also means that victims still - Speech Link
2: Mark Durkan (SDLP - Foyle) those women and girls who are confronted by violence and those who are trying to be advocates for them - Speech Link
3: Caroline Spelman (CON - Meriden) Sadly, the funding for it no longer exists, so, through the good offices of the Minister present, I ask - Speech Link
4: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) There are question marks over funding for refuges for victims of domestic violence in some parts of the - Speech Link
5: Greg Mulholland (LDEM - Leeds North West) There are also appalling risks for women who are victims of modern slavery and trafficking. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 06 Jul 2015
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) In addition, recent data show that 16 to 19-year-olds are more likely to be victims of intimate violence - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) how much stalking is done on the internet. - Speech Link
3: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) Might the funding available for our police forces reflect levels of violent crime? - Speech Link
4: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) We are trialling child advocates in a number of local authority areas to see what system works best for - Speech Link
5: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) , needs to provide far more places for resettlement, and other opportunities such as flexible family - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Violence against Women and Girls - Thu 12 Mar 2015
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Mark Pawsey (CON - Rugby) There is much more understanding of it and more support for victims, such as from the Kaiza project - Speech Link
2: Mary Macleod (CON - Brentford and Isleworth) , and introduced stalking offences as well.We have issued new guidance for the prosecution of FGM cases - Speech Link
3: Mary Macleod (CON - Brentford and Isleworth) doing it. 3M has developed a unique technology to provide victims with an early warning of possible - Speech Link
4: Karen Bradley (CON - Staffordshire Moorlands) The Office for National Statistics has said clearly that the increase in reporting is due to more victims - Speech Link
5: Karen Bradley (CON - Staffordshire Moorlands) We have also announced an uplift of £7 million in additional funding to support victims of sexual abuse - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Banks - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) or venality of Ministers in this heartless Government, who so love to sneer and scapegoat the victims - Speech Link
2: Gordon Banks (LAB - Ochil and South Perthshire) food bank in Sauchie for a polythene bag of food, only to have to walk 7 miles back home to provide - Speech Link
3: Gerald Kaufman (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) They have taken away more Government funding from my city than from anywhere else in the country, whereas - Speech Link
4: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) We all act as advocates for those individuals, and it is perfectly right that we should.As the Bishop - Speech Link