Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, which allows me to emphasise that although I think my Bi...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) on introducing the Bill. It...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for her excellent campaigning in this area, and I thank...

I completely agree. Indeed, one of the frustrations that many of us have had through the years ha...

I appreciate the point about data on men and women, and this is predominantly a women’s issue. Ho...

I agree that we want people to come forward, but it is also about time that we recognised—and, fr...

I rise with some trepidation, as this is my first debate of this sort in this role, but what a pl...

Anybody who lives in London and has to wait for buses that never seem to show up would welcome th...

That is, of course, part of the change that we all want to see. As with most Government strategy ...

I pay tribute to the Government for their advertising campaign and for giving the public strategi...

My hon. Friend is right. The campaign has cut through. We see posters and stickers everywhere, ev...

On offender behaviour, will my hon. Friend give some attention to the work that is being done in ...

One of the joys of being a relatively new Minister is the feeling that we can have substantive ch...

Will the Minister give way?

Very briefly, as I am on my last paragraph.

The explanatory notes, under “Territorial extent and application”, say that the Bill extends to E...

My Department is, of course, in conversation there.

Before we get to other Members who want...

I call the shadow Minister.

10.18 am

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, and apologies for the croaky voice this morning.

It is that time of year.

It is indeed. I welcome the Minister to her new role. She and I have shared time on Bill Committe...

I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark), who has done s...

I have a hard act to follow in my right hon. Friend the Member for Romsey and Southampton North (...

It is with great pleasure that I add my support to the Bill of my right hon. Friend the Member fo...

I have spoken before about the serious and outrageous behaviour that girls from Stroud High Schoo...

My hon. Friend is making the important and powerful point that we must never ever forget that the...

I completely agree with my right hon. Friend. That is why I get so frustrated when people dismiss...

Does the hon. Lady also recognise the point I made earlier about adding the concept of “foreseeab...

I heard what the hon. Lady said earlier. It is not something that I have looked at, but I underst...

It is almost two years since Maya and Gemma Tutton from Our Streets Now first approached me in Pa...

It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Laura Farris), and I commend my ...

I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark), who is very well respec...

It is a great privilege to speak in this debate and in support of my right hon. Friend the Member...

That is a really important statistic. Has the hon. Gentleman heard the term “adultification”, whi...

I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. I am not an expert in this area, and it is not som...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North Norfolk (Duncan Baker), and to tak...

The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case about the importance of being specific, and I think ...

The hon. Lady makes an extremely important point, and I absolutely agree with her; these behaviou...

I, too, want to start by congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Anthony Browne). I...

With the leave of the House, I will make a few comments about the way in which the debate has bee...

I would like to briefly respond to this excellent Second Reading debate. I thank all colleagues f...