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Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) of that huge imbalance of power in the leasehold system. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Clause 30 substitutes existing section 25 of the 1985 Act, which includes penal provisions dealing with - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) way in which a landlord would be able to game the system, because they would not be able to operate - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) That is why we have included measures in the Bill to rebalance the system, but we do not necessarily - Speech Link
5: None and women of our country, I could not in good conscience vote with the Government at this point, unless - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) in the migration system. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) in the criminal justice system. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) in the criminal justice system. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) in the criminal justice system. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) in the criminal justice system. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) in the criminal justice system. - Speech Link
7: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) in the criminal justice system. - Speech Link
8: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Howard League for Penal Reform to the Law Society, the EHRC and the Joint Committee on Human Rights—in - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) sanctions that do not force those middle-aged women out to hunt individual rice grains in the fields - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) Korea’s vast penal system is perhaps the clearest example of how the state diverts resources away from - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2023 - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) The statutory framework for sentencing in murder cases is to be found in Schedule 21 to the Sentencing - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) overcrowded prison system, in which resources are desperately needed for rehabilitation to reduce the - Speech Link
3: None We all come at this with different experiences of the criminal justice system. - Speech Link
4: None Group on Penal Affairs about his general approach. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) They have failed in the academic system. - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) past 10 years to protect women and girls. - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Ladywood) commit predatory and abusive crimes in which vulnerable women are most often the targets. - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) , but in particular about those who harm women and girls. - Speech Link
5: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) described as a penal catastrophe. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) way in which our health system has been managed. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cumberlege (Con - Life peer) We saw, first-hand how litigation had failed women who had already been failed by the healthcare system - Speech Link
3: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) You cannot grow your way out of an increasingly overcrowded penal system by locking up more and more - Speech Link
4: Baroness Harris of Richmond (LD - Life peer) more widely in the national health system? - Speech Link
5: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) One in every 12 women over 55 experiences a spinal fracture, rising to one in 10 for those over 60.We - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) crisis in our penal system. - Speech Link
2: Lord Patten (Con - Life peer) women on the streets around here. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Bridgeman (Con - Excepted Hereditary) facing Muslim women when involved in a divorce. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) in the police and legal system. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ahmadi Muslims: Pakistan - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) Since the Lahore massacre of 94 people in 2010, most women and children that I met had not attended the - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) In 1984 and 1986, the Pakistan penal code was amended and stipulated up to three years in prison if Ahmadis - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: 9th sitting - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) justice system occur in the courts? - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) the youth justice system. - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) using a case in which the complainant stated they found the system difficult to navigate because they - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) criminal justice system. - Speech Link
5: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) criminal justice system. - Speech Link
6: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) criminal justice system. - Speech Link
7: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) The Howard League for Penal Reform surveyed over 3,000 children in schools over a period of seven years - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 28 Jun 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) in the actual system contained in that legislation. - Speech Link
2: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) He is malign, lethal and cocky in the face of the legal system. - Speech Link
3: Lord Etherton (CB - Life peer) , same-sex sexual activity is criminalised under Liberia’s penal code. - Speech Link