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Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: 9th sitting - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) Literally decades of data shows that women prisoners are predominantly victims of domestic and sexual - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) are human traffickers; the woeful rates of conviction of people who people-smuggle or commit modern slavery - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) For example, our modern slavery laws say that we would have to wait for 45 days of reflection in cases - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee stage: 10th sitting - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) For far too long, those dangerous criminals have been let off and victims have been let down. - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) said:“This provision will help to ensure that perpetrators are properly managed in the community and victims - Speech Link
3: None words on vellum, let us just be clear that they would not satisfy or protect the domestic violence victims - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) The serious offences are defined in schedule 1 to the 2007 Act, and they include slavery, drug trafficking - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 17 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) coming here, but we would massively increase the number of people who end up in the black market as victims - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) —when rape victims in my constituency are waiting seven years for their cases to get in front of a judge - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) They are victims of war, human rights abuse, poverty and so much else. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House Day 1 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) rather than be forcibly recruited into an army that would kill and rape their loved ones, and been victims - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill   - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None It was not just the anti-slavery campaign that motivated William Wilberforce; it was also the need to - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) There are victims here—it is not a victimless delay.It took a private Member’s Bill introduced by the - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) its report, but hear from a range of experts, including those supporting and campaigning on behalf of victims - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) Dame Vera Baird, the former Victims’ Commissioner, made the point very powerfully. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 09 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Supporting victims has broadly three elements. - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Under the 2006 victims code that we inherited, support was available only for direct victims. - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Prisoners Bill and through the revised victims code and so on, that victims go from being spectators - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Certainly, under the victims code, the rights of victims to be kept informed are far tighter than ever - Speech Link
5: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) routes would not have legal recourse to receive support under modern slavery provisions. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) The exploitation of children and vulnerable adults, whether in modern slavery or other forms, also needs - Speech Link
2: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) agreement; immigration law, a rite of passage for any Home Office lawyer, of course; extradition; modern slavery - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) of modern slavery referred to the national referral mechanism are under 18. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) Let us not forget that four in 10 victims of modern slavery are under the age of 18.In major incidents - Speech Link
5: Lord German (LD - Life peer) , including the rights of rape victims, victims of anti-social behaviour, victims who are coerced and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Home Affairs Committee - Thu 14 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) The post of Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner was vacant for 18 months. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) indeed victims of horrendous crimes. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) Sadly, we do think that victims are being let down. My hon. Friend and other hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
North Korea - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Article 4 abjures slavery, yet 90% of the wages of North Koreans who are able to work overseas are confiscated - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) the inquiry, to the UK’s foreign policy and to international justice, but ultimately to North Korea’s victims - Speech Link