Draft Domestic Abuse Bill: Territorial Extent

Domestic abuse affects communities in every nation in the UK, yet last week, after two and a half...

Home should be a place of safety and love, and yet for 2 million people in this country a year, t...

I highly commend the Minister and the Government for this very good Bill, but I very much share t...

I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for raising that issue. I know how passionately s...

As a Welsh MP, I have every confidence that the Welsh Labour Government are working towards deliv...

As always, I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady. Indeed, I should call her my hon. Friend, as...

Let us call this out for what it is: part of an orchestrated campaign to alter abortion laws in N...

I thank my hon. Friend for her question. She demonstrates the range and depth of views, and the p...

The situation in Northern Ireland as regards women’s rights, particularly on abortion, is deplora...

I am very grateful to the hon. and learned Lady for her astute and concise analysis of the legal ...

I echo the words of the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris), in ag...

Very much so. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for setting out the political complexities of this,...

I have a great deal of time for the Minister, but what does she really think about how long it is...

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady, and I note her campaign on the particular issue of abor...

May I ask my hon. Friend to confirm two things? First, is she committed and determined to tackle ...

As this Bill passes through pre-legislative scrutiny, but also through this House and the other p...

My party, the Democratic Unionist party, recognises the importance of tackling domestic abuse and...

The hon. Gentleman of course speaks for his constituency, and I am pleased to hear that he is urg...

May I thank the Minister for this Bill, which I believe will transform the way in which we deal w...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I am particularly grateful to her for pointing out that, ...

When Ireland was part of the UK.

I call Jess Phillips.

I would just like to point out that in 1861 there was no devolution—the whole of Ireland was part...

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady, who needs no introduction in terms of her experience an...

I agree that Northern Ireland must get its political system up and running to tackle these really...

I thank my hon. Friend. She is absolutely right to draw attention to elder abuse. The number of c...

The Minister failed to answer the central question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Waltham...

As the hon. Lady knows, the process is that any Bill that is introduced has to go through various...

The Supreme Court judgment made it absolutely clear that lawmakers would have to change the law t...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I know that he works on a wide range of issues tackling violence...

I welcome, as I am sure others do, the Minister’s obvious passion and commitment to tackling dome...

I thank the hon. Lady for her kind comments. She has perhaps recognised the situation in which we...

Although I welcome the inclusion in the Bill of financial abuse as a type of domestic abuse, it i...

If I may just correct the hon. Lady, we are not talking about financial abuse; we talk about econ...

Criminal justice is not yet devolved to Wales, but I draw attention to, and commend, the Violence...

I am very concerned to hear that, not least because I visited Cardiff a few months ago, as part o...

I welcome the Minister’s response today. I also welcome the support from the Scottish National pa...

I absolutely understand the hon. Gentleman’s feelings and his reasons for raising that point. At ...

I would like to start by saying to the Minister that unless she is going to devolve Department fo...

I think the hon. Lady can be satisfied that she has provided comprehensive coverage of her concer...

I am grateful, Mr Speaker. First, I thank the hon. Lady for pointing to the fact that the draft B...

Like many Members from across this place, I am very enthusiastic about the Bill and the potential...

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Indeed, I find myself being held to account by him...

Earlier, an hon. Member said that there were no devolved institutions in Ireland in 1861. Of cour...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his history lesson on Ireland and Northern Ireland. He makes the p...

Was the Bill vetted by the Cabinet Office in relation to the confidence and supply agreement?

I do not understand what the hon. Gentleman is trying to get to. I have already said that the Bil...