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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) up with it, including rape and murder. - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) sexual violence in the law—but we will lay out clearly what we mean by “violence against women and girls - Speech Link
3: James McMurdock (Ind - South Basildon and East Thurrock) That money will be spent on people who will, in some instances, commit violent and sexual crimes—crimes - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) The national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse will mirror the Casey audit - Speech Link
5: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) of Public Prosecutions, Lord Ken Macdonald, will lead it.Last week, we announced that police and crime - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None and girls including, but not limited to—(a) rape and sexual offences;(b) stalking;(c) upskirting;(d) - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Sexual offences specifically have risen by 10% and harassment is up 6%. - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) The amendment deals with the big crimes—rape and other sexual offences, stalking, upskirting and domestic - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) to report offences, and indeed poor behaviour, and will relentlessly pursue offenders. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) I could read him the offences captured in Sections 2 and 6 of the Fraud Act, Sections 1 and 2 of the - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) What steps his Department is taking to support victims of rape and sexual violence through the court - Speech Link
2: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) I have heard far too many stories from constituents who have endured sexual violence and rape. - Speech Link
3: Pam Cox (Lab - Colchester) That is obviously so important in rape and sexual assault cases. - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) victims, and the difference that it makes by allowing victims of rape and sexual offence crimes specifically - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Jury Trials - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) and witnesses, which includes victims of sexual offences, including rape.”The Minister’s example about - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) , but robbery, homicide and serious drug offences—can be dealt with more swiftly. - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) and civil cases—those involving defamation and inquests—through the reclassifying of offences from either - Speech Link
4: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) There are around 1.3 million prosecutions in England and Wales every year, and 10% of those cases go - Speech Link
5: Aphra Brandreth (Con - Chester South and Eddisbury) Horrific crimes such as murder and rape are rightly treated with the utmost gravity, but offences deemed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) contraception, abortion and sexual health care confidentially. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Police shows that of 42 arrests under Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against the Persons Act and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sugg (Con - Life peer) Against Women Coalition, Refuge, Rape Crisis, Karma Nirvana and many more. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) What Clause 191 does is to disapply the offences created by Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Report stage - Wed 29 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) to exclude sexual and serious violence offenders. - Speech Link
2: None guilty of firearm offences, burglary or terrorism-related offences, and those who fail to surrender - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Member for Derby North (Catherine Atkinson) in domestic abuse and other offences. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 25 Feb 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We are extending sanctuary to Ukrainians in their time of need and providing the weapons and aid to support - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) in March to build lasting peace and security for both Palestine and Israel. - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) jobs, growth and opportunity. - Speech Link
4: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) even RAF bases, to traffic young women and girls in and out of our country. - Speech Link
5: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) , he did not bring charges against Mohammed Fayed for rape and assault, and the Prime Minister replied - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Tenth sitting) - Thu 23 Apr 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) The defence, in cases involving sexual offences, can then consider how they wish to bring that forward - Speech Link
2: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) Survivors have told Rape Crisis that they feel disbelieved, blamed and retraumatised when they simply - Speech Link
3: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) When the Law Commission conducted a review of these measures in relation to sexual offences cases, it - Speech Link
4: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) That is for an important reason: we know that in offences involving domestic abuse or sexual offences - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Patrick (Lab - Wirral West) Last week I met businesses big and small, the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry and representative - Speech Link
2: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) during the troubles for a range of offences, including murder, and the purpose of the reform is to ensure - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) assault and creating indecent images at a nursery in Camden; and, just this week, 21 counts of sexual - Speech Link
4: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) Homes and businesses were wrecked, and an important A road was severed. - Speech Link
5: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab - Hendon) I have a speech impediment, and so do 2 million adults and one in 12 children. - 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