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Commons Chamber
Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Ministry of Justice, including the Prison Service, Immigration Enforcement, and the asylum and modern slavery - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Ladywood) This scheme will seem wrong in principle to victims and the public—that people who have done wrong and - Speech Link
3: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that under the new scheme victims will see justice prevail - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) The British people expect that those who offend against our country, as well as against victims of crime - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None a simple, very short interview that enables people to detect whether someone is subjected to modern slavery - Speech Link
2: None Referral Mechanism stating that they may be a victim of modern slavery and human trafficking must not - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) About a third to half the victims of modern slavery come to this country. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bshp - Bishops) Safeguarding victims of modern slavery from removal to Rwanda will have a negligible impact on the supposed - Speech Link
3: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) amendment, that it cannot be right to treat the victims of modern slavery as perpetrators and it cannot - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The UK has a proactive duty to identify victims of modern slavery. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) Victims are suffering from trauma and serious ill health, both physical and mental.The number of people - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Curricula remain underweighted on issues of slavery, colonialism and imperialism. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) under our tackling organised exploitation programme, we are keenly aware of the difference between victims - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) had trafficked a vulnerable 15-year-old child from Luton to sell drugs were sentenced under modern slavery - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) I am glad to hear that those two criminals were convicted under modern slavery laws. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) suppliers where necessary, including where there is evidence that a supplier is involved in modern slavery - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) In the late 18th century, anti-slavery campaigners promoted the boycott of West Indies sugar. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We have spoken for the victims of the massive human rights abuses of Saudi Arabia, to which we absolutely - Speech Link
4: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) There are plenty of exceptions: for example, environmental misconduct and modern slavery. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) risk and will not prevent public bodies adhering to modern slavery guidelines. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) It introduced a defence for victims of slavery and trafficking, placed a duty on the Secretary of State - Speech Link
2: None It appears that our much-admired Modern Slavery Act and the process for identification of victims are - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) I am strongly in favour of excluding unaccompanied children, victims of modern slavery and the victims - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Bristol (Bshp - Bishops) The UK has had until now a world-leading referral system for victims of modern slavery. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) One of those indicators is whether they claim to be victims of modern slavery. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) The victims’ code would help to redress that.Many such victims have to crowdfund if they are to have - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) the death of those victims. - Speech Link
3: None victims of nuclear tests. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) because I learned the other day that the newly appointed—after a period of 22 months—independent anti-slavery - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024 - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) Is this not a disgraceful way to treat victims of the Troubles, who have suffered so much already? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) If it was, a treaty effecting disenfranchisement or slavery would be unimpeachable because it rests in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) whether the arguments do not extend to some extreme offences other than sexual offences—violence, modern slavery - Speech Link
2: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) The review found that most victims did not see a charge or reach court, and one in two victims withdrew - Speech Link
3: None The victims’ code is about guaranteeing rights for those victims, but the rights we spell out in the - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) sessions, have sometimes been used inappropriately to discredit victims—in particular, victims of rape - Speech Link
5: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) As Victims’ Commissioner, I have been in contact with many victims who have experienced criminal offending - Speech Link