Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 11 Nov 2020 Domestic Abuse
"In its report, Safe and Well: Mental Health and Domestic Abuse, Safelives states:
“Despite the strong association, domestic abuse often goes undetected within mental health services and domestic abuse services are not always equipped to support mental health problems.”
"My Lords, I would like to press the Minister a bit further on the issue of children witnessing domestic abuse in the home. Women’s Aid has some stark figures: 53% said their children had seen more abuse, during lockdown, in the home, and a third said the abuser had shown …..." Baroness Hussein-Ece - View Speech
"The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said it is not party to any UK government discussions on offshoring asylum seekers or housing them on ships or far-flung islands. So can the Minister assure the House that the UK will provide asylum seekers with access to procedures which comply …..." Baroness Hussein-Ece - View Speech
"My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Baroness because I know that she is very sympathetic to these matters. Does she agree with me that the Government, in particular the Home Office, failed in their legal duty to counter racial discrimination when they implemented their anti-immigration “hostile environment” programme, …..." Baroness Hussein-Ece - View Speech
"My Lords, it is ironic that the removal last week of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston has provided more information about Britain’s role in the Atlantic slave trade than any history lesson in our schools. I have not heard any political party asking for the removal of statues. …..." Baroness Hussein-Ece - View Speech
"There is clearly a lack of capacity in refuges for women fleeing abuse. Will the Government take a serious look at what the French Government announced in March—that they would fund hotel rooms, sitting empty, for victims of domestic violence, and consider opening pop-up counselling centres in supermarkets for easy …..." Baroness Hussein-Ece - View Speech
"There are two things: the French Government paying for hotel rooms so that they become available, and the pop-up counselling centres in supermarkets...." Baroness Hussein-Ece - View Speech
"My Lords, women who have been stalked and have been victims of domestic violence keep having to move. I had a case recently of a woman who moved five times to get away from her abuser. Several times information about where she had moved to was not passed on to …..." Baroness Hussein-Ece - View Speech
"My Lords, according to more in-depth research than we just heard about, psychiatrists and others who have interviewed so-called jihadists in prison cells and on battlefields all agree that faith, Islamic or otherwise, is not the key driver for what these people have done. Does the noble Baroness agree with …..." Baroness Hussein-Ece - View Speech