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Commons Chamber
Knife and Sword Ban - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) cent increase in knife crime since 2015; recognises the devastating impact that knife crime has on victims - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) cent increase in knife crime since 2015; recognises the devastating impact that knife crime has on victims - Speech Link
3: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Of course we do not want more victims, but those involved in such heinous crimes often are victims themselves - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Serious Crime Act 2007 do what she is rightly asking for, and there are also provisions in the Modern Slavery - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) If those sections of the Serious Crime Act and the Modern Slavery Act contain lacunae, I would be willing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) Victim Support has found that as many as six in 10 victims do not receive their rights under the victims - Speech Link
2: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) The victims’ code gives all victims of crime the right to refer to support services. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) from the violence against women and girls sector and was shared by the children’s sector and modern slavery - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Bristol (Bshp - Bishops) The amendment covers victims of serious crimes including domestic abuse, sexual violence and modern slavery - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) As always, my thoughts and prayers are with the victims, the survivors and their families. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) To honour the victims, we must speak the truth of their identity”.As we recall and commemorate other - Speech Link
3: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) For the victims to be guilty of the crimes committed by the perpetrators is a perversion of reality. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) identity group has been encouraged to view themselves through the prism of their historic victimhood, from slavery - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Internationally Recruited Health and Social Care Staff: Employment Practices - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Kwasi Kwarteng (Con - Spelthorne) Given the concern felt by everyone in the House about human trafficking and modern slavery, there is - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) It reported a—wait for it—606% increase in the number of modern slavery cases in the care sector from - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Fifteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 15th sitting - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861;(f) paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to the Modern Slavery - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) that Act (unlawful sub-letting: assured tenancies and secure contracts);section 30(3)(b) of the Modern Slavery - Speech Link
3: None example, the Crown Prosecution Service states that cuckooing may be charged under section 1 of the Modern Slavery - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) Certainly, for those charged under any of the crimes in the Modern Slavery Act, there will be many more - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) According to the 2023 Global Slavery Index, prevalence of modern slavery in Rwanda is more than twice - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) Slavery was odious, not recognised in the pure air of England. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bshp - Bishops) This raises a serious constitutional issue and potentially, yet again, victimises the victims. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Road Traffic Deaths: Police Investigations - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Mark Pawsey (Con - Rugby) professionalism when there is clearly excellence in the investigation, and service to the families of the victims - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None and Witnesses;(j) the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner.”This amendment aims to ensure that there - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) , there is no requirement to consult organisations that protect the rights of victims to ensure that - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) That brings me to amendment 136—which specialist agencies who work with victims of domestic violence - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) , and the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) Amendments 7 and 11 have been brought to us by Hestia, which supports victims of modern slavery. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) friend Lady Hamwee in Amendment 7 on the child victims of modern slavery or human trafficking. - Speech Link
3: None who are themselves victims of modern slavery. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) questions to the Minister, aid routes were being blocked, hospitals were running out of fuel to treat victims - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) We also cemented our commitment to defending freedom of religion or belief, combating modern slavery, - Speech Link