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Commons Chamber
Restriction of Jury Trials - Mon 08 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Emma Foody (LAB - Cramlington and Killingworth) It is horrific that victims of rape and sexual assault are waiting years for justice, and we should never - Speech Link
2: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) and sexual violence offences? - Speech Link
3: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) How will these reforms speed up justice for victims of rape, serious sexual offences and vile grooming - Speech Link
4: Shaun Davies (Lab - Telford) In Shropshire and wider West Mercia, victims of rape and other serious offences are being told to wait - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Rape and sexual assault trials are already lengthy and very emotional for victims. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Daesh Crimes: Accountability (JCHR Report) - Tue 09 Sep 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) marriage, rape and sexual violence.One of the horrors is that, at first, their own community was reluctant - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) the rape and enslavement of the women and children, amounted to genocide. - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) women and girls being subjected to abductions, forced conversions, forced marriage, rape and sexual - Speech Link
4: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) and conflict-related sexual violence. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prosecutions for Violence against Women and Girls: West Midlands - Wed 04 Jun 2025
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) prosecutor in the west midlands dealing with rape and serious sexual offences cases. - Speech Link
2: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) The Labour election manifesto committed to establishing specialist courts for rape and serious sexual - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) well as CPS national lead on rape and serious sexual offences, to discuss exactly that. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Victims of child sexual abuse and other offences often do not come forward themselves at the time of - Speech Link
2: None the precedent established for the creation and requesting offences in Sections 66E and 66F of the Sexual - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) By way of background, Schedule 9 inserts new Sections 66AA and 66AB into the Sexual Offences Act 2003 - Speech Link
4: None in existing section 66B(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and new sections 66AA(1) and 66AC(1) (added - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) prosecutions, as well as practical advice on decision making in gang-related offences and on building - Speech Link
2: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) I recently visited a rape and serious sexual offences—RASSO—unit in the west midlands and heard first - Speech Link
3: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) The barriers that victims of rape and serious sexual violence face in this country are unacceptable, - Speech Link
4: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) and serious sexual offences units in the west midlands just a few weeks ago. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) The Crown Prosecution Service has significantly increased prosecutions for child sex offences and recently - Speech Link
2: Andrew Snowden (Con - Fylde) the courts worked together to prioritise the listing of cases involving rape and serious sexual assault - Speech Link
3: Pam Cox (Lab - Colchester) offers vital support to victims of rape and sexual abuse. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) and serious sexual violence. - Speech Link
5: Will Forster (LD - Woking) Dani is just 21 and has been a victim of grooming and sexual abuse. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None to protect children and teenage girls from rape, exploitation and serious violence and from the scars - Speech Link
2: None changing, and evidence that rape and sexual exploitation are taking place in street gangs and drug gangs - Speech Link
3: None To the victims and survivors of sexual exploitation and grooming gangs, on behalf of this and past Governments - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) But I think we need to look at the police response as a whole to child sexual abuse and child sexual - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Social Media Posts: Penalties for Offences - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Emily Darlington (Lab - Milton Keynes Central) of minorities death and rape threats when they speak freely, and that includes Members of this House—like - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Accurate quantitative data on arrests and prosecutions for offences on social media are therefore hard - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) We excluded sexual offences, and the early release schemes that continued excluded sexual offences. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) The police recorded data shows just over 100,000 offences of child sexual abuse and exploitation recorded - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) They probe the definitions of child sexual assault and rape, and also impose a statutory duty to investigate - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) Additionally, the difference in how offences are labelled in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and mandating - Speech Link
4: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) Real children are also increasingly subjected to virtual rape and sexual abuse online. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
2nd reading - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) prosecutions for repealed offences, to pardon women with criminal records and to expunge the records - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bertin (Con - Life peer) and committing sexual violence. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Shawcross-Wolfson (Con - Life peer) Depictions of illegal activity such as rape, and harmful activity such as violent sexual activity, are - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) More prosecutions for complex new offences will tend to clog up the courts and exacerbate the appalling - Speech Link
5: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) girls and child sexual abuse. - Speech Link