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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 21 January 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Vera Baird. The answering member was Lord Harper.

Violence Against Women

Westminster Hall debate on a motion for the adjournment on violence against women.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
504 c145-88WH 
Session
2009-10
Department
Solicitor General
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c158WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. I think that the Solicitor-General agrees that we must ...
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Fiona Mactaggart | 504 c186WH (Link to this contribution) The point is that we have local authorities piggy-backing on neighbouring local authorities. East Be...
Vera Baird | 504 c186WH (Link to this contribution) What happened is that the commission wrote and said, "You're accused", as it were. A number of autho...
Bruce George | 504 c186WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister tell us how many letters she wrote?
Vera Baird | 504 c186-8WH (Link to this contribution) Of course, End Violence Against Women will do another "Map of Gaps". If we have been conned by local...
Vera Baird | 504 c184-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am confident that my hon. Friend the Member for Slough will make powerful representations when she...
Brooks Newmark | 504 c158-9WH (Link to this contribution) It goes back to the point that I made to the Solicitor-General, who I hope will correct me when she ...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c159WH (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point, but a far more critical issue is the conviction rate. The differe...
Lord Harper | 504 c159WH (Link to this contribution) This raises an interesting point, which the Solicitor-General touched on in her remarks, about the c...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c158WH (Link to this contribution) That is cause and effect. That is a rate of just under one in five. The lowest rate is in Dorset, w...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c159WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do not want to discourage women in any way. It is important that women come forward when they...
Vera Baird | 504 c168WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is generous for giving way so early in his speech. My lesson from that is a sligh...
John Greenway | 504 c168-71WH (Link to this contribution) I am glad that I gave way to the hon. and learned Lady, because I agree with her completely, but I w...
Lynda Waltho | 504 c171-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate on violence against women. I want to conce...
Vera Baird | 504 c174WH (Link to this contribution) That is a telling story. One thing that one would want to know is why she decided to write the lette...
Lynda Waltho | 504 c174WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I think that that is obvious. I had hoped that that everybody would come to that conclusion,...
John Greenway | 504 c167WH (Link to this contribution) Like the right hon. Member for Walsall, South (Mr. George), I welcome the debate. It is on a very im...
Fiona Mactaggart | 504 c167WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the recent Independent Police Complaints Commission report on Joh...
John Greenway | 504 c167-8WH (Link to this contribution) That may be true. It is not the conclusion that I drew from the IPCC report. What I drew from that w...
John Greenway | 504 c162WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions the Home Affairs Committee. I am interested in this issue as a member of...
Bruce George | 504 c161-2WH (Link to this contribution) If I said that I was delighted to attend this debate, it would be a gross understatement. The number...
Bruce George | 504 c166-7WH (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend's views. I have tried not to be too partisan because this should not be a par...
Bruce George | 504 c162-6WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to trump the hon. Gentleman, but I want to talk about the first Select Committee deali...
Lynda Waltho | 504 c166WH (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend as worried as I am, representing a west midlands constituency, that Dudley c...
Brooks Newmark | 504 c159WH (Link to this contribution) I just wanted to back up the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr. Harper)...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c159-61WH (Link to this contribution) I suspect that it is not rocket science, and that they need a great deal of support to come to that ...
Andrew Pelling | 504 c176-8WH (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful for your guidance, Mr. Benton, on when Members are to give way for those on the ...
Lynda Waltho | 504 c174-6WH (Link to this contribution) I was talking about the increase in custodial sentences. That increase is, in no small part, because...
Speaker | 504 c174WH (Link to this contribution) Just to clarify, we will now continue until 5.51 pm.
Andrew Pelling | 504 c184WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Minister's comments about the trafficking unit, because funding was guaranteed...
Vera Baird | 504 c182-4WH (Link to this contribution) This has been a good debate, with some welcome and powerful contributions. I shall try to take on so...
Fiona Mactaggart | 504 c181-2WH (Link to this contribution) In her speech, the hon. Lady mentioned the Metropolitan police trafficking unit. She is right to be ...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c181WH (Link to this contribution) I am mystified, given the number of advertisements in the back of local papers that are clearly to d...
Fiona Mactaggart | 504 c178-81WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pelling) for his generous remarks. I speak as the ...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c156WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Solicitor-General for that. It would be really interesting to discuss the possibility of...
Lynda Waltho | 504 c156WH (Link to this contribution) Is that not the point of the domestic violence protection notices, or the go notices, or have I got ...
Vera Baird | 504 c156WH (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly. I have even known of situations in which animal welfare bodies—this is comme...
Jo Swinson | 504 c156WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Does she share my frustration when I see women in my co...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c156WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent intervention. The logic is upside down. In an ideal world, the wom...
Lord Harper | 504 c155WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Lady reads out an early-day motion that is not accurate. The Mayor of London is...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c155-6WH (Link to this contribution) May I say how pleased I am to make a speech under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr. Benton? As e...
Brooks Newmark | 504 c158WH (Link to this contribution) On that subject, I am obsessed with statistics, as the Solicitor-General realises—and I am sure she ...
Baroness Featherstone | 504 c156-8WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. I agree, but women's fear in these situations cannot al...
Vera Baird | 504 c146-7WH (Link to this contribution) Sentencing is imposed by the judiciary, not the Government. I do not think that those figures are co...
Brooks Newmark | 504 c146WH (Link to this contribution) As the Minister knows, I take an interest in this problem. The evidence I have seen shows that the a...
Vera Baird | 504 c145-6WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Benton. It is nice to see the Front-Bench teams from the Equality Bill reassembled fo...
Lynda Waltho | 504 c147WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome that list of new initiatives, which I know are working in many parts of the country. Howev...
Vera Baird | 504 c147-8WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is important to preserve evidence and I am sure doing that can...
Lynda Waltho | 504 c148WH (Link to this contribution) That is the theory of how it should work and it is what I supported when I voted for the legislation...
Vera Baird | 504 c148-50WH (Link to this contribution) Independent domestic violence advisers are, of course, not counsellors; they are primary workers who...
Vera Baird | 504 c153-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the issue, and I hope that he will explain to Tory l...
Lord Harper | 504 c153WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady supports the point that I am making. I am highlighting the fact that a number of local...
Fiona Mactaggart | 504 c153WH (Link to this contribution) On that matter, has the hon. Gentleman spoken to the Conservative local authorities that are making ...
Lord Harper | 504 c151-3WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for helpfully raising that point. In our strategy paper, we have stated that t...
Jo Swinson | 504 c151WH (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with what the hon. Gentleman is saying, particularly in relation to the shocking sta...
Lord Harper | 504 c150-1WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Benton. As the Minister said, and as I am sur...
Vera Baird | 504 c154-5WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman perhaps has not seen early-day motion 438, which states that the Mayor of London ...
Lord Harper | 504 c154WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that clarification. Given that the gender equality duty is subsume...
Subjects
Crimes of violence Advisory services Women Domestic abuse Forced marriage Police Rape Sentencing Victims Violence Forced marriage protection orders
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