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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


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 28 Jan 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) I do not recall seeing him standing up and speaking about delays for rape victims, or indeed any other - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) We are therefore funding the rape and sexual abuse support fund to the tune of £26 million, as well as - Speech Link
3: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) It has been revealed that just 4% of rape and sexual offences reported to Lancashire police in the past - Speech Link
4: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) rape and sexual offences. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) the network, promote the reporting of sexual offences, and have committed to tackling violence against - Speech Link
2: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) , such as rape, sexual assault, domestic abuse, forced marriage and honour-based violence, are given - Speech Link
3: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) We will root out all forms of child sexual exploitation, keep children safe from harm, and ensure that - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) survivors of the rape gang scandal and their family members. - Speech Link
5: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) He brought the first prosecutions against grooming gangs, and called for action to address ethnicity - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Decriminalising Abortion - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) vulnerable: victims of domestic abuse and violence, human trafficking and sexual exploitation, girls - Speech Link
2: Alex Brewer (LD - North East Hampshire) The new clause is backed by End Violence Against Women, Refuge, Rape Crisis England & Wales, and - Speech Link
3: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab - North Somerset) supports their wellbeing—and that must include their sexual and reproductive healthcare.That is why - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) be helpful if I also do so, and set out the three main offences that apply. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse - Thu 16 Jan 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) to go further in tackling sexual exploitation and grooming on the streets and online, in order to keep - Speech Link
2: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) As a barrister and a former Crown prosecutor for 14 years who dealt with sexual abuse and rape cases, - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) What started as online abuse and grooming then led to contact abuse and rape, and the most appalling - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) abuse and a statutory two-year investigation into child sexual exploitation and grooming gangs. - 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
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


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
Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse - Mon 06 Jan 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Child sexual abuse and exploitation are the most vile and horrific of crimes, involving rape, violence - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Child sexual exploitation and abuse is a heinous crime. - Speech Link
3: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) I stand with all victims of child sexual exploitation and sexual violence. As the hon. - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) abuse, grooming and gang rape. - Speech Link
5: Harpreet Uppal (Lab - Huddersfield) that we support local charities such as the Kirklees rape and sexual abuse centre and the Pennine domestic - 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