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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 06 Feb 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) and serious sexual assault units, as well as by being tough on crime, supporting victims and restoring - Speech Link
2: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) I am working with the CPS to ensure better support for victims in rape and serious sexual offence cases - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) For example, we are introducing specialist rape and sexual offences teams in every police force; working - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) The criminal legal aid advisory board has asked the Government to raise fees in rape and serious sexual - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) Offences Act 2003 (rape and other offences against children under 13),(d) an offence under any sections - Speech Link
2: None The term “child sexual exploitation and abuse” is in part defined by reference to a list of offences - Speech Link
3: None This amendment adds further Scottish offences to the list of child sexual exploitation and abuse offences - Speech Link
4: None This amendment adds further Scottish offences to the list of child sexual exploitation and abuse offences - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Courts and Tribunals: Sitting Days - Wed 05 Mar 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Jury trials are a pillar of our justice system for the most serious offences, and that will never change - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) We have ringfenced funding for victims of rape and serious sexual offences, as well as domestic abuse - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) Yesterday, the Public Accounts Committee published a report that says that rape and serious sexual offences - Speech Link
4: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Those independent legal advisers will ensure that rape victims’ rights in law are respected and that - Speech Link
5: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) The worst cases he has raised with me include serious sexual assault and rape cases that have been delayed - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 08 Apr 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jo Platt (LAB - Leigh and Atherton) , sexual offences and the use of offensive weapons, is particularly important for our community. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) , sexual offences and offensive weapons offences, among others. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) offences” under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and for victims and witnesses of both offences to be - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) Schedule 6 specifies the offences that constitute child sexual exploitation and abuse. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Catherine Fookes (Lab - Monmouthshire) and serious sexual violence an opportunity to challenge a prosecutor’s decision to drop their case. - Speech Link
2: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) I know from meeting rape charities, and indeed from meeting CPS units right across the country, how long - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) The CPS has recently received new funding to step up surveillance and prosecutions, which will mean that - Speech Link
4: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) If she will take steps to reduce the number of prosecutions brought for non-violent drug-related offences - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
“For Women Scotland” Supreme Court Ruling - Tue 22 Apr 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) that those convicted of serious sexual offences should be held in jails that matched their chosen gender - Speech Link
2: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) fleeing appalling male violence, sexual violence and domestic abuse. - Speech Link
3: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) rape crisis centres, and that rape was finally, back in the early ’90s, banned in marriage. - Speech Link
4: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) violence, including sexual abuse in the home, and what they wanted and needed was single-sex accommodation - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Violence against Women and Girls - Wed 27 Nov 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Apsana Begum (Ind - Poplar and Limehouse) and non-contact sexual offences, which highlights the need to ensure that victims feel confident in - Speech Link
2: Steve Yemm (Lab - Mansfield) crimes are violence and sexual offences. - Speech Link
3: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) offences and subsequent offences. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) in Dorset, yet in the year ending June 2024 there were 36 prosecutions and 14 convictions for rape. - Speech Link
5: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Stamford) and serious sexual offences. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trial by Jury: Proposed Restrictions - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) That let down the public, and it let down victims—soft on crime, and soft on law and order. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) The fact that so many victims of rape and serious sexual offences pull out of the process is testament - Speech Link
3: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) After 14 years of Conservative government, victims of rape and serious sexual crimes are waiting years - Speech Link
4: Rupert Lowe (Ind - Great Yarmouth) oppressive prosecutions and to safeguard individual liberties. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Thu 27 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) It generally enables much earlier intervention and prevention on the back of the new or adapted offences - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Crown court and at what offences should be triable in the magistrates court. - Speech Link
3: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) We hope, want and expect all offences to be prosecuted.” - Speech Link
4: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) We did it with rape and we have done it with other types of criminality. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 05 Nov 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) services through the rape and sexual abuse support fund. - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) £26 million rape and sexual abuse support fund and the funding of independent domestic and sexual violence - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) Just 6% of all offences are reported, and there are even lower rates for rape and sexual assault convictions - Speech Link
4: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) is dependent on rape and sexual abuse funding and funding that it receives from the police and crime - Speech Link
5: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) I have previously asked about delayed rape and sexual offences cases at Truro Crown court. - Speech Link