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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


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) sexual offences; victims of coercive or controlling behaviour, stalking or harassment; and bereaved - Speech Link
2: Lord Gove (Con - Life peer) and serious sexual offences. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) and serious sexual offences. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) and serious sexual offences. - Speech Link
5: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) that is particularly so in the case of sexual offences. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) and violent offences, and breach offences linked to violence against women and girls, will be able to - Speech Link
2: None For survivors of rape and serious sexual offences and other victims, VRR is often the only route to challenge - Speech Link
3: None in those four years; 106 original decisions were overturned —about 13%; and in rape and serious sexual - Speech Link
4: None and sexual offences. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Something must be done.The Government have highlighted the scale and seriousness of sexual offences and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Violence against Women and Girls: London - Tue 25 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) As well as numerous accounts of rape and sexual assault, he is accused of drugging women he planned to - Speech Link
2: Jess Asato (Lab - Lowestoft) sexual violence—women and children. - Speech Link
3: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) comments, and joked about rape in a private group chat, and yet nothing changed. - Speech Link
4: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) more than 4,000 victims and survivors of grooming and rape gangs, the vast majority of whom are women - 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


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


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 05 Feb 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Johanna Baxter (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) gangs and support victims of sexual abuse. - Speech Link
2: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) long, victims of grooming gangs and serious sexual assault have not been heard. - Speech Link
3: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) Also, given that it is Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week, what assessments have been made - Speech Link
4: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) that includes offences such as rape. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) their work on sexual violence and domestic abuse. - Speech Link
2: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) The result is near-total impunity for the men who commit serious offences of sexual assault and domestic - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) those rape myths and stereotypes, and we are committed to our manifesto commitment of introducing independent - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) One in three rape trials end up being postponed, in some cases more than six times, and 73% of rape survivors - Speech Link
5: Alison Bennett (LD - Mid Sussex) Survivors’ Network supports all victims of sexual assault and abuse in Sussex. When my hon. - 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