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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 8 March 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Vera Baird. The answering member was Baroness Laing of Elderslie.

Women, Justice and Gender Equality

Debate on a motion for the adjournment on women, justice and gender equality.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
457 c1687-766 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Russell Brown | 457 c1707 (Link to this contribution) It is strange how the words ““quality public services”” trip off the tongue of Opposition Members. O...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1707 (Link to this contribution) It also improved areas of the economy that needed to be tightened up. If it is so wrong, why have th...
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Simon Burns | 457 c1707 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the interventions on my hon. Friend in the past few minutes, is she surprised that o...
Mary Creagh | 457 c1707 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her interesting hagiography of Baroness Thatcher. Does she agree, however,...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1707 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. Of course, the Prime Minister invited Baroness Thatche...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1707 (Link to this contribution) First, the hon. Lady has her facts wrong; Lady Thatcher was no longer Prime Minister when interest r...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1708 (Link to this contribution) Was it not Lady Thatcher who released countless women from the feudal tyranny of local authority lan...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1707-8 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Lady will allow me to answer the intervention of the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mar...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1708 (Link to this contribution) It certainly was—and that demonstrates that when a policy is introduced that benefits millions of pe...
Speaker | 457 c1708 (Link to this contribution) Order. Although I am sure that Lady Thatcher would be greatly flattered that we are conducting a deb...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1708 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I will return to the subject of women, justice and gender...
Russell Brown | 457 c1708 (Link to this contribution) Although what the hon. Member for Upminster (Angela Watkinson) said was correct, that policy forced ...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1708-9 (Link to this contribution) That is true, because of the way in which the economic cycle works. As we all know, the present Gove...
Fiona Mactaggart | 457 c1708 (Link to this contribution) I was reluctant to intervene until now, because when I pointed out earlier that only the Labour Gove...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1708 (Link to this contribution) As long as we now move on to the subject of the debate, I will give way.
Anne Milton | 457 c1709 (Link to this contribution) May I conclude the remarks about Lady Thatcher? We seem to be incapable of getting away from her. T...
Speaker | 457 c1709 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House again that the title of the debate is ““Women, justice and gender equality...
Vera Baird | 457 c1710 (Link to this contribution) The police have complained to the hon. Lady that they do not have the required powers. I just wonder...
Julian Lewis | 457 c1709 (Link to this contribution) As the person who, perhaps not quite inadvertently, began this cycle of the debate by referring to t...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1714 (Link to this contribution) I must not go on more than another minute, but I will certainly give way.
Vera Baird | 457 c1711 (Link to this contribution) There is a definition of stalking, which is two acts calculated or likely to cause harassment, alarm...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1710-1 (Link to this contribution) I did not want to take up time by discussing the matter in great detail. I pay tribute to the Minist...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1715 (Link to this contribution) I take great pleasure in speaking in debates on women, and I take particular pleasure in speaking in...
Speaker | 457 c1715 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Lady, but we do not use the actual names of Members of the H...
Meg Munn | 457 c1714 (Link to this contribution) That is what you said last time.
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1715 (Link to this contribution) It is, and I will say it the next time, as well; indeed, I will go on saying it. It is going to happ...
Meg Munn | 457 c1714 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is offering support for our policies in this area, but the Conservative Opposition hav...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1714 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that we supported the Work and Families Act 2006 and the Equality Act 2006. I app...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1718 (Link to this contribution) There is a very generous IVF treatment service in my own hospital trust area, and it has found that ...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1717-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with an awful lot of what the hon. Lady has said. The hon. Gentleman’s survey is excellent, ...
Maria Miller | 457 c1717 (Link to this contribution) I have written to the Department of Health on numerous occasions on behalf of constituents of mine w...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1715-7 (Link to this contribution) I do apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for that mistake. I wish that I could make the same warm commen...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1718 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a very important point, for which there is statistical proof. I do not think tha...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1719 (Link to this contribution) I can only agree. People living in the same road can be in different PCTs, so policy differences are...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1719-20 (Link to this contribution) It would be appropriate if the hon. Lady wrote to me. I am not making a political statement, because...
Maria Miller | 457 c1719 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is generous in taking interventions. I want to pick up on her point about funding. She...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1721 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady include in that list emotional violence from a controlling partner?
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1720-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to speak for the Liberal Democrats on this important day. Members will be relie...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1721-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an extremely important point. Violence is not only physical. It can also encompa...
Meg Munn | 457 c1722 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Lady is aware that the most recent statistics on the gender pay gap s...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1722 (Link to this contribution) Women in their twenties generally have not had children, and it is when children come on the scene t...
Meg Munn | 457 c1723 (Link to this contribution) May I provide some clarification on that? On current policies—this has been reviewed by the Fawcett ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1723 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear that the hon. Lady is determined to make progress. However, I think that I am righ...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1722-3 (Link to this contribution) People often quote interesting statistics to do with the different generations—the Minister did so. ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1724 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention and her kind remarks. All I can say in reply is ...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1724 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to listen to the hon. Lady. There is an honesty and integrity about all she says, ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1723-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for making that excellent point. The Committee stage of the Companies...
Maria Miller | 457 c1723 (Link to this contribution) I should like to ask the hon. Lady a question which perhaps I should have asked of the Minister duri...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1725 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady surprised that there are job shares in parts of Africa, something we do not even co...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1724-5 (Link to this contribution) I will settle for ““encourage””. It is clear that until we have women in the most senior decision-m...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1725-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Solihull (Lorely Burt). I pay tribute to the obvious ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1725 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is absolutely delightful, and we can learn from that excellent example. Companies...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1725 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I have not been clear enough. I was describing parliamentarians who job-share.
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1725 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has made a good point. We have the concept of job share, and enlightened companies tha...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1726-7 (Link to this contribution) I entirely endorse my hon. Friend’s suggestion of the figures that we should aim for. In one of the...
Mark Pritchard | 457 c1687 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister believe that it is time for a lady to be Deputy Prime Minister of, perhaps not the...
Vera Baird | 457 c1687 (Link to this contribution) On that point? [Laughter.] I will.
Vera Baird | 457 c1694 (Link to this contribution) First, let me compliment my hon. Friend on her work in the domestic violence arena by serving on the...
Mary Creagh | 457 c1693-4 (Link to this contribution) Last September I spent a day with the domestic violence support unit at Wakefield police. It has dou...
Vera Baird | 457 c1694-5 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. That sounds like a terrific model that we should be trying to roll out. That...
Ann Coffey | 457 c1694 (Link to this contribution) On increasing awareness, the Stockport Young Women’s Forum has produced a magazine called ““Fe-mail”...
Vera Baird | 457 c1692-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Minister for Women and Equality, who will wind up the debate, is better placed to...
John Bercow | 457 c1691-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. and learned Lady, who has been generous in giving way. She predicted that ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1693 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Effective perpetrator programmes can play a role after conviction. They can also play a rol...
David Drew | 457 c1693 (Link to this contribution) The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1695 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. There are now sanctuary schemes for those who are able to withdraw within t...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1695 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. and learned Friend agree to look at an initiative in Tasmania? At the first referral fo...
Simon Burns | 457 c1697 (Link to this contribution) I shall be interested to hear the Minister’s answer, not only as a Minister but as a lawyer, to a qu...
Vera Baird | 457 c1697 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Keighley deserves nothing less. She has worked tirelessly.
Joan Ruddock | 457 c1697 (Link to this contribution) May I record, at the request of my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mrs. Cryer), her apologies f...
Vera Baird | 457 c1696-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes. That is imperative. It happens now in some cases because injunctions are often backed by a powe...
David Heath | 457 c1696 (Link to this contribution) May I bring the hon. and learned Lady back to her response to an earlier intervention about part of ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1696 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Lady will find that Hampshire has very good domestic violence results, indicating a...
Maria Miller | 457 c1696 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Lady referred to the low level of conviction for rape in our country, and I sha...
Vera Baird | 457 c1695 (Link to this contribution) That resembles something I came across when I went to New Zealand. When there is a domestic violence...
Vera Baird | 457 c1697-8 (Link to this contribution) Of course, the best solution is for the parents to agree. The next best solution, if they cannot do ...
Keith Vaz | 457 c1688 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend—the Minister for Women and Equality is sitting on her left on the Fr...
Vera Baird | 457 c1687-8 (Link to this contribution) A lady? I support gender-balanced leadership. Gender equality should have a good year in the UK in ...
Julie Kirkbride | 457 c1688 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Lady will be aware that, last night, the Commons voted for an elected House of ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1688 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for making that point. There is another round of recruitment going on a...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1689 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend will be aware that the only democracy in the world that has 50 per cent. ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1688 (Link to this contribution) In terms of advancing women, we have a lot to tell the Tories, and they have not got a lot to tell u...
Vera Baird | 457 c1689 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. I am grateful for that intervention.
Joan Ruddock | 457 c1689 (Link to this contribution) I want to stress the point that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgend (Mrs. Moon) has illustrat...
John Bercow | 457 c1689 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. and learned Lady understands why I hesitated momentarily just now. The 10-year...
Speaker | 457 c1689 (Link to this contribution) Order. I appreciate that the Minister might not want to reply at length to the intervention, but it ...
Maria Miller | 457 c1690 (Link to this contribution) What is the Minister doing to help women who have taken a career break to look after children at hom...
Vera Baird | 457 c1690 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Tory party visits Stockholm whenever it thinks that it needs to learn—and it does...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1689 (Link to this contribution) In relation to the intervention that the Minister responded to about gender balance in the political...
Vera Baird | 457 c1689 (Link to this contribution) It seems inevitable that consideration for child care must be built in. There is a planning White Pa...
Vera Baird | 457 c1690 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Lady missed it—if so, I have no doubt that my hon. Friend the Minister for Women an...
Lynne Jones | 457 c1690-1 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend think that it advances the cause of women if lone parents who take a...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1705 (Link to this contribution) Oh good, I am so glad that the hon. Lady has opened up the debate on Mrs. Thatcher’s contribution to...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1706 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. It was not just women who suffered from the economic mismanagement of most business an...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1706 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a moment. The short speech that I was going to make is rapidly lengthening. To ...
Lynda Waltho | 457 c1706 (Link to this contribution) I, too, have something to thank Baroness Thatcher for: the effect that she had on my life. Because o...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1706 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady proves my point. I said that Baroness Thatcher made an enormous difference, and she di...
Mary Creagh | 457 c1705 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the contribution that Mrs. Thatcher made to women entering the work fo...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1705 (Link to this contribution) As ever, I agree 100 per cent. with my hon. Friend and I am glad that he made that point. First, I a...
Lynda Waltho | 457 c1704 (Link to this contribution) The pressure that the hon. Lady describes came from not only Conservative Members, but Members of al...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1704 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that I gave the hon. Lady an opportunity to make that point. I am well aware that, in prev...
Fiona Mactaggart | 457 c1703 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Lady like to comment on the fact that every single equality measure in this country h...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1703-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I would not. We have had a Labour Government for the past 10 years. I have been a Member of Parl...
Anne Milton | 457 c1705 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating the women in Guildford who formed an organisation call...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1705 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate that group of women in my hon. Friend’s constituency. It is gratifying to note that t...
Vera Baird | 457 c1704 (Link to this contribution) I thought perhaps that the hon. Lady would like to welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries an...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1704 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Under-Secretary has pointed that out. It makes me remember going to teenage schoo...
Julian Lewis | 457 c1705 (Link to this contribution) In recognising the country’s economic success, will my hon. Friend acknowledge the vast contribution...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1702-3 (Link to this contribution) Having been a woman Whip, I know the advantages only too well. Of course, the hon. Lady is right, bu...
Fiona Mactaggart | 457 c1702 (Link to this contribution) I will stand up slowly, too. Is the hon. Lady placing so much emphasis on the presence of hon. Gent...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1702 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a perfectly good arithmetical point with which I cannot disagree, but we are mak...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1702 (Link to this contribution) I rise in defence of my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew), who was here earlier on. I wou...
Lynne Jones | 457 c1700 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that children suffer disproportionately when women are sent to...
Vera Baird | 457 c1700-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raised that point at a recent private meeting. I do not know why that step has been t...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1701-2 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the fact that we are having this debate. For a long time, we had to argue for the n...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1702 (Link to this contribution) I accept what the hon. Lady says; perhaps I could not see them. In reality, however, the fact that ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1702 (Link to this contribution) One of the men whom the hon. Lady prayed in aid was popping in to talk to someone else and went out ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1699 (Link to this contribution) The courts are, as the hon. Lady has put it, sharpening up their act, and arrangements are now in pl...
John Bercow | 457 c1699 (Link to this contribution) By way of reinforcement to the point just made by the hon. Member for Solihull (Lorely Burt), may I ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1698-9 (Link to this contribution) We are considering exactly what to do and how appropriately to deal with the Bill. All that I can as...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1699 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware of the fact that more than two thirds of women who enter prison have two or mo...
Vera Baird | 457 c1698 (Link to this contribution) I do not know that that outcome is so obvious and necessarily follows as night follows day, as the h...
David Heath | 457 c1698 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to intervene again on the hon. and learned Lady. She referred to the Forced Marriage (Civ...
Simon Burns | 457 c1698 (Link to this contribution) Excluding violent fathers, which is a different issue, where the background of the parents is simila...
Vera Baird | 457 c1700 (Link to this contribution) I must compliment the Poppy project, which has led the way in giving support and breathing space to ...
Vera Baird | 457 c1699 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made a powerful point, and I am happy to see him riding his hobby-horse in ou...
Mary Creagh | 457 c1699-700 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend the Minister has briefly mentioned the problem of human trafficking. As p...
Frank Roy | 457 c1766 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
Meg Munn | 457 c1761-6 (Link to this contribution) This has been a wide-ranging and interesting debate and I pay tribute to all Members who have taken ...
Joan Ruddock | 457 c1759-61 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart), and so man...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1727-8 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that the changes that we have witnessed in women’s lives, whether we are ...
Maria Miller | 457 c1730 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bridgend (Mrs. Moon). We were standing by the s...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1728-30 (Link to this contribution) I endorse my hon. Friend’s comments 100 per cent. I visited my local Sure Start centre in north Corn...
Diana Johnson | 457 c1730 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may want to reflect on the fact that, in the Labour in-take in 2005, out of the 40 new...
Maria Miller | 457 c1731-3 (Link to this contribution) The Minister raises the important issue of older women who come into politics. There is much to be s...
Meg Munn | 457 c1731 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making an important point about local government. There are indeed more women activ...
Maria Miller | 457 c1733 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not saying that at all. What I am saying is that there is deep concern, as evidenced in the...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1733 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making some interesting points and I am listening to her with great care. She is no...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1733 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady accept that the problem is not that women are working, or even that both parents ...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1727 (Link to this contribution) To clarify, I said that 40 per cent. of women lost their home while imprisoned. I shall deal with co...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1727 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady referred to 40 per cent. of women who lose their homes getting reconvicted. The overal...
Meg Munn | 457 c1741 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure how the hon. Lady would explain the following anecdote that was included in the Fawcet...
Diana Johnson | 457 c1738-9 (Link to this contribution) I would like to move on and comment on two particular subjects. The first is the role of local gover...
Baroness Keeley | 457 c1739 (Link to this contribution) I cite the example of Trafford council, of which I used to be a member, which benefited from a femal...
Diana Johnson | 457 c1739-41 (Link to this contribution) Role models are incredibly important. In Hull, we have had the benefit of Councillor Kath Lavery, wh...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1741 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate, which has teased out a lot of aspects of the life of women in t...
Diana Johnson | 457 c1737 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention; she is absolutely right. Unfortunately, we have concent...
Judy Mallaber | 457 c1737 (Link to this contribution) On the same point, speaking as one who entered the House in 1997, I think that we should put on reco...
Diana Johnson | 457 c1737-8 (Link to this contribution) It is worth stating that all political parties now recognise the need for a more representative grou...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1738 (Link to this contribution) We debated that subject at all only because so many people wanted to talk about it. There is a genui...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1737 (Link to this contribution) It was suggested that women find working in the House particularly difficult and that because of tho...
Justine Greening | 457 c1737 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I do not know why the voters of Putney chose a Conservative female MP over their previous...
Diana Johnson | 457 c1737 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly willing to acknowledge that. As has already been said, if we leave things as they are...
Maria Miller | 457 c1736 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for making a relatively political point. All I can say is that we are doing mu...
Diana Johnson | 457 c1736-7 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to contribute to the debate. I note that the hon. Member for Solihull (Lorel...
Maria Miller | 457 c1734-6 (Link to this contribution) I would like to agree that the US is different, but I am not sure that it is. As a country, we have ...
Madeleine Moon | 457 c1736 (Link to this contribution) Given the sentiments that the hon. Lady has just expressed, does she share my concern that her party...
Maria Miller | 457 c1734 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point and those of us who have school-age children can sympathise ...
Diana Johnson | 457 c1734 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady talked about learning lessons from the US about the flexibilities that had been introd...
Maria Miller | 457 c1734 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. The important point to note is that if parents are present i...
Justine Greening | 457 c1734 (Link to this contribution) I should say that I am not a parent, but one of the concerns that many parents have is that even if ...
Baroness Keeley | 457 c1746-51 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I am pleased to speak on international women’s day. I want to talk about wo...
Speaker | 457 c1751 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I just say to hon. Members who are still trying to catch my eye that the average length o...
Annette Brooke | 457 c1751-3 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a relatively brief speech on the contribution of microfinance in addressing poverty a...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1753 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of several microfinance projects. Does my hon. Friend agree that such projects, in additi...
Annette Brooke | 457 c1753-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her helpful intervention. That is exactly what happens in the east end, w...
Lynda Waltho | 457 c1755-8 (Link to this contribution) First, may I apologise for leaving during the speech of the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Mrs. Lain...
Fiona Mactaggart | 457 c1758-9 (Link to this contribution) I wanted to take this opportunity to speak about three aspects of violence against women: forced mar...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1744-5 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly the case that advice is often better digested from a peer when it relates to their p...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1745-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right. I am using the word ““women”” because the debate is about women, ...
Lynda Waltho | 457 c1745 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly confused as to whether the hon. Lady is suggesting that flexible working should be ava...
Annette Brooke | 457 c1743 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that it is most important to focus not just on sex education, but on sex an...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1742-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that contribution, but we are not allowed to say such things in our party ...
Justine Greening | 457 c1743 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an interesting point. In my local area there is pressure on closing walk-in...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1744 (Link to this contribution) The specific age is best decided by professionals who are specialists in that field in both health a...
Justine Greening | 457 c1744 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to my hon. Friend with interest. She has not mentioned peer-to-peer education. The ho...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1743-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right. Sex is not just a casual leisure activity, because the outcomes are so long ...
Baroness Keeley | 457 c1742 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with the hon. Lady, and I certainly think that women in my party used to have such prob...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1741-2 (Link to this contribution) I know the person involved, and that was just one comment from one other person. The only instance o...
Dari Taylor | 457 c1695 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend is making a clear statement to the House that domestic violence is incred...
Laura Moffatt | 457 c1706 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Lady consider continuing in this vein? I have a feeling that her speech will be the b...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1709-10 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The point about women and economic activity is that if the very good...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1711-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Minister entirely. I am not suggesting that the matter can be solved easily or that...
Maria Miller | 457 c1730-1 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is great and I congratulate the hon. Lady on raising that point. We are doing a gr...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c1743 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Teenage girls need that advice, and they need proper warnings about all the risks that are ...
Lynda Waltho | 457 c1744 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has touched on an important debate that is currently taking place between health profe...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1702 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Lady, but she will have to forgive me if it takes me a moment to sit down.
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 457 c1723 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right that the Labour group is making much more progress, and I shall address that s...
Mark Pritchard | 457 c1687 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way on that point?
Vera Baird | 457 c1691 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with my hon. Friend, but it is bad for children to be brought up in workless households...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 457 c1709 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is, of course, absolutely right; but I am pleased that the existence of Lady Thatcher...
Baroness Keeley | 457 c1718-9 (Link to this contribution) One of my constituents who needs IVF treatment is in the unfortunate position of having her hospital...
Vera Baird | 457 c1687 (Link to this contribution) I am very proud to be here today with colleagues, male and female, from all parties to open the deba...
Vera Baird | 457 c1689 (Link to this contribution) Let me offer my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Joan Ruddock) the titbit that I agree...
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Childcare Courts Debts Credit cards Women Employment Equality Fertility Health services Human rights Legal aid scheme Judiciary Domestic abuse Gender Human trafficking Harassment IVF Discrimination Part-time employment Mental health Prostitution Women's rights
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