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Select Committee
Sixth Report - Inequalities in healthcare and employment for people with a learning disability and autistic people

Report May. 21 2024

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Since Winterbourne View, Panorama uncovered similar levels of abuse at Whorlton Hall 104 while the


Select Committee
Large Print - Inequalities in healthcare and employment for people with a learning disability and autistic people

Report May. 21 2024

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: In 2011, the BBC’s Panorama programme exposed patterns of abuse directed towards patients at Winterbourne


Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Employment Appeal Tribunal

May. 20 2024

Source Page: FDA Claimants v HMRC, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and The Home Office: [2024] EAT 73
Document: FDA Claimants v HMRC and Others [2024] EAT 73 (PDF)

Found: (see p 31A -B) concluding that the determination requires: “… a broad, merits -based judgment which


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stage - Mon 20 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None The new clause that I propose is intended to deal with this abuse of the system. - Speech Link
2: None The first is that Ofcom’s reporting system should be contemporaneous and not based on dated historic - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) Instead, we endorse a principles-based approach based on finding mutually beneficial carriage deals between - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, it is a great honour to speak after the noble Lord, Lord Foster, who put the case for this - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) Disabled people are more likely to experience domestic abuse, with disabled women being twice as likely - Speech Link
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) The test is based on assessing various elements such as cognitive function, mobility et cetera. - Speech Link
3: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) It is planning folly and not evidence-based. - Speech Link
4: Lord Touhig (Lab - Life peer) A year earlier, in 2016, the National Autistic Society, of which I am a vice-president, an honour I share - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Ministry of Justice

May. 16 2024

Source Page: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2023
Document: (PDF)

Found: For example, o ffences involving domestic violence, or “honour -based” violence , cannot be separately


Written Question
Forced Marriage: British Nationality
Thursday 16th May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Gohir (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government between 2018 and 2022 how many British citizens, if any, have reported being in a forced marriage to individuals in the UK who have students visas.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Since April 2019, police forces in England and Wales have been required to provide quarterly data returns to the Home Office on so-called ‘honour’-based abuse offences, including forced marriage. The most recent data show 172 forced marriage related offences recorded in the year ending March 2023.

In addition, the joint Home Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) also publishes statistics on forced marriage cases reported to the unit. The most recent statistics show the FMU provided support in 280 cases of forced marriage in 2023.

The Home Office does not hold data on forced marriages relating to individuals with student visas.


Westminster Hall
Biodiversity Loss - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) We need to end that devastating practice, and we need real investment in nature-based solutions, which - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) I also want to focus on nature-based solutions to climate change. - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) It is no longer possible to deny the fact that human health is linked to our use and abuse of the environment - Speech Link
4: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) are—but setting legally binding targets that the Government then fail to meet is not cause for a lap of honour - Speech Link
5: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) Only last year, we launched a new £25 million fund for nature-based solution projects. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) may have contributed to that, but I have listened carefully and will take that point away.It is an honour - Speech Link
2: None The new clause is based on legislation introduced in a number of Australian states. - Speech Link
3: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Before speaking to new clauses 25 and 26 in my name, I want to say that it was a huge honour and privilege - Speech Link
4: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) A consent-based approach would focus on the core wrong of non-consensual sexual conduct. - Speech Link


Select Committee
Steven Unthank, and Samantha Radford MBACP
MSA0070 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Written Evidence May. 14 2024

Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: refused to join the Australian National Redress Scheme5 to recognise the suffering endured because of abuse