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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 22 Apr 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Peter Bedford (Con - Mid Leicestershire) Aspiration and ambition are drivers of social mobility and help to reduce deprivation and crime. - Speech Link
2: Zöe Franklin (LD - Guildford) I recently met representatives of the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre in my constituency. - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) We are introducing new offences of taking intimate images without consent and installing equipment with - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) After the conviction of eight men for a string of horrendous child rape offences in Keighley, I wish - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th Sitting - Tue 29 Apr 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) , and those who pose a risk of sexual offending. - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) It also promotes consistency and supervision, as polygraph conditions are already used for sexual and - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Government amendments 73 and 74 make the offences under clause 18 triable either way irrespective of - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) offences that can be used by the Government and operational partners to disrupt travel overseas for - Speech Link
5: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) The list currently includes some terrorism offences, as well as serious violence and sexual 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
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
Victims of Sexual Violence: Court Delays - Mon 16 Dec 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Mary Glindon (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend) The road to justice for so many victims of rape and serious sexual offences is long and falls desperately - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) and serious sexual offences. - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) We will publish the findings of our review in the new year.Victims of rape and sexual offences can request - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) and sexual offences—both at court and across the whole of their journey through the system. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 10 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) This intensification of busybody offences and penalties risks increasing injustice, particularly for - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) However, with quick prosecutions conducted in such a way—and, in that instance, behind closed doors, - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) the 85 sexual offences and—the largest group—191 crimes of violence against the person. - Speech Link
4: None Very few people commit rape as their first sexual offence. - Speech Link


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


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) whose visas are revoked due to criminal offences, and raises several important questions concerning - Speech Link
2: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) verifying relevant data on the topic of foreign national offenders and their offences, and to establish - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) It includes an offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. - Speech Link
4: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) offence, including under Schedule 3 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence against Women and Girls - Thu 09 Jan 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) For far too long, the way in which survivors of rape and sexual offences have been treated has been unacceptable - Speech Link
2: Alex Brewer (LD - North East Hampshire) rape and serious sexual assault. - Speech Link
3: Jen Craft (Lab - Thurrock) In my constituency of Thurrock alone, 317 sexual offences and 1,841 incidents of stalking and harassment - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) and other sexual offences: it was a game changer for women in policing, and had the impact that was - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) crimes against humanity including murder, torture, enslavement, rape and sexual violence. - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) There are real, deep concerns about atrocities in Sudan, including sexual violence and the use of rape - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We need to challenge China on security and compete and co-operate on economic and global affairs. - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) That is why I supported the strengthening and updating of the law in this area, to make prosecutions - Speech Link
5: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) and keeping this country and our allies safe. - Speech Link