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Commons Chamber
HMP Downview: Female Prisoners - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) Women prisoners are some of the most vulnerable in our society, yet very few people give much thought - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) Women prisoners deserve better than this. - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) I have spoken to the prisoners and the staff there. - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) My priority is ensuring the safety of all prisoners on our estate. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Modern Day Slavery: Pakistan - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Devastatingly, in a 2019 study carried out on brick kilns, approximately 20% of the females admitted - Speech Link
2: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) Pakistan to press for immediate change, to hold perpetrators of mob violence to account, to release prisoners - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) (1) After section 2 (parental responsibility for children) of the Children Act 1989, insert —‘2A Prisoners - Speech Link
2: Marie Tidball (Lab - Penistone and Stocksbridge) An inquest two years later heard how the family had been kept virtual prisoners in their home by youths - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Ind - Hayes and Harlington) They have said that the legislation is being used against political prisoners, which is raising concerns - Speech Link
4: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) Caucasian females are also not safe—just ask Danielle Horan, who was escorted out of not one but two - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) She talked about NHS single-sex wards and the provision for biological females and biological males. - Speech Link
2: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Of course it is important that vulnerable prisoners receive the support they need, but single-sex spaces - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crown Court Criminal Case Backlog - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) three-quarters of serving judges suffer from work-related stress symptoms, with higher figures for females - Speech Link
2: Baroness Porter of Fulwood (Con - Life peer) The situation is also not helping the remand prisoners themselves; the longer someone waits before coming - Speech Link
3: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) understand from the Library statistics that something like 20% of our prison places are taken up by prisoners - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) occasionally, and it is recognised that a completely unreasonable number of delays are caused by prisoners - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 06 Mar 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Biology and maths, by the way, are the second and third top choices for females at A-level. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Rafferty (Lab - Life peer) She inspired me to enter nursing through her stories of nursing prisoners of war in Bridge of Earn military - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women�s Day - Thu 06 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) In her personal diaries, she expressly discussed the need to protect female prisoners from rape and sexual - Speech Link
2: Chris McDonald (Lab - Stockton North) and announced a ban on the women�s game, stating that�the game of football is quite unsuitable for females - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
Report stage: Part 1 - Tue 21 Jan 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: None This can apply to males and females. - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) involved in a variety of Bills—the Policing and Crime Bill, the Online Safety Bill, and the Victims and Prisoners - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 25 Jul 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con - Life peer) Mulheres Conectadas has participated in the Future Females Business School, a programme promoted by the - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Will we call for his immediate release, along with the release of Hong Kong’s 1,800 pro-democracy prisoners - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) In the same way that prisoners or perpetrators who have been found guilty go to appeal, the right that - Speech Link
2: None The Victims and Prisoners Bill offers us a key opportunity to make sure that these children are better - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Take the differing offending patterns between males and females. - Speech Link