Domestic Abuse Bill

Homes should be places of love and safety, but for 2.4 million people across the country they are...

I wholeheartedly support everything that the Minister has said, but one additional factor that ca...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I, of course, pay attention to the fact that he ...

The Minister is setting the scene very clearly regarding what is important and what we wish to se...

If I have understood the hon. Gentleman correctly, he is not just addressing the use of this so-c...

May I join the Minister in doing that? This issue has bedevilled criminal law cases going back to...

I am happy to take that intervention and I thank my hon. Friend, the Chair of the Justice Committ...

I welcome the points that the Minister has made on other topics, but on this one, if she wants to...

The right hon. Lady makes a point that I know would, at first blush, be attractive, but the probl...

As the Minister has said, there is a lot of interest, not surprisingly, in wanting to take part i...

I would like to start by saying that we on the Labour Benches fully support all the Government’s ...

I am sure the hon. Lady agrees that we just do not know what the picture is. If we were to do awa...

I absolutely agree. I agree not because it suits my purpose, but as someone with a vast amount of...

Order. We move on to the seven-minute limit.

May I say how much I welcome the fact that the Bill has returned for its Report stage and Third R...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I am afraid I am on a strict time limit.

You get an extra minute.

It has been so long that I had forgotten. I will give way.

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. Does she agree that some of the posters we have seen...

I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend. I would also say that some of the local health trus...

May I begin by welcoming the work that the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) has done on...

I welcome the opportunity to speak once more on the Domestic Abuse Bill—I have done so several ti...

My right hon. Friend knows that in recent days a range of views have been expressed, including by...

I thank my hon. Friend for that commitment and look forward to the consultation coming forward. I...

This is a very important Bill and I warmly welcome it. It deals with a number of what have hither...

Order. We move to a five-minute limit.

May I start by thanking the Minister for the helpful and courteous way that she has navigated thi...

This is a really good Bill that has been made better by scrutiny. I pay tribute to the Prime Mini...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton), and to ...

We all know my position on abortion. Does my hon. Friend agree that this attempt to add new claus...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that. I agree with him in part, but I will say this about the...

I have tabled 26 amendments, so I have about 10 seconds per amendment. I wish to put on record my...

I am listening to my hon. Friend very carefully and I have read through his amendments very caref...

My right hon. Friend makes a fair point, but unfortunately the Bill is not actually quite as it s...

It is not particularly a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), who talk...

We are dealing with extremely serious issues here, but I have to say that, at times, the passage ...

I am a little concerned about what the right hon. Lady just said. We have the Abortion Act 1967 a...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, but she would be encouraging people to undertake abor...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me a bit earlier than I was expecting.

I rise to ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will.

I just wanted to thank the hon. Gentleman, in order that he can continue thanking people.

I thank the hon. Lady; I am conscious that there are a lot of people. My hon. Friend the Member f...

It is truly an honour to follow the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier), given the work th...

I want to speak, if I may, on new clause 28. I thought a consultant who wrote to me summed it up ...

I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman agrees with the Government-funded telephone lines for d...

I think it was designed by the Government as a very temporary measure. I do not think for a momen...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh). In fact, it...

I support this landmark Bill and the Government’s amendments to it. I wish to speak to new clause...

I commend the hon. Lady for all she does in this House on preserving life in every sense of the w...

I will come on to that; I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution.

I want to quote so...

I emphasise that the Government are neutral on the very sensitive topic of abortion, but I hope t...

I thank the Minister for that. On that basis, I will not press amendment (c) to a vote, and nor w...

This is what happens all too often: a man, and it is normally a man, comes home, perhaps he is dr...

I welcome and endorse the hon. Gentleman’s excellent amendments. Not for the first time, he has b...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who has been a doughty advocate for those who have suf...

I am pleased to follow the hon. Gentleman, who, as I said, has made a persuasive case, to which I...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that we must absolutely not allow this vital piece of legislation...

I was not going to deal with new clause 28 because it has been debated at some length, but I simp...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will in a second. But more than that, it may even frustrate the very purpose of the Bill by put...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I want to make it clear that the new cl...

I think there are times and places to have these debates. We take different views, but this is no...

I warmly welcome the Bill and the amendments to it that have been tabled. It has been urgently ne...

Order. There have been a lot of interventions, which has extended the time of speeches, so I will...

It gives me great pleasure to support the Bill, which is the product of input from all over the H...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price). I wholeheartedly sup...

Let us consider these words: “When I met my ex, I was a confident 17-year-old woman, but he wore ...

I will confine my remarks to Government new clause 20, which concerns the rough sex defence. Thos...

It is a delight to have heard the excellent points of the hon. Member for Newbury (Laura Farris)....

I would like to start by saying this is a good Bill. I would particularly like to add my support ...

It is a pleasure to take part in this debate.

Children are victims of domestic abuse, not j...

I was proud to support the Bill on Second Reading, and am happy to see it back here today for its...

I thank the Minister, and Members from both sides of the House, for bringing to fruition a Bill t...

Does my hon. Friend agree that pushing that agenda has led to the ludicrous situation in Northern...

I agree with my hon. Friend that we have an absolutely terrible situation in Northern Ireland as ...

Order.

This Bill, as it stood at Second Reading, was a remarkable piece of legislation, but having gone ...

My hon. Friend and I served on the Bill Committee together. I completely agree with everything sh...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Also on the list is the Serious Crime Act 2015, which cre...

I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken), but I...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate having sat on the Bill Committee. It was indeed a privil...

It has been a privilege to sit in this debate and hear so many very personal stories not just abo...

Domestic abuse is a scourge on our society. We must take robust and meaningful action to tackle t...

I rise to speak to amendment 35 in the absence of my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Stel...

It is a privilege to speak in the debate and hear the recounted stories that so many hon. Members...

Diolch, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangn...

After giving my maiden speech on the Second Reading of this landmark Bill, I would like to acknow...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak on such an important subject. In th...

I thank the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Abena Oppong-Asare) for her courage in speaking...

The next Member on the list has withdrawn, so we go directly to Laura Trott.

I pay tribute to all those who have contributed to the Bill. I am relatively new to the House, bu...

Order. I am afraid there is very little time left, so I have to tell everyone except the next spe...

I am grateful to be able to take part in this debate and say a few words on behalf of the many pe...

It is fair to say there were moments in the past two and a half years where I did not quite belie...

If the approximately 3,630 women who we imagine might want to access this scheme a year breaches ...

The hon. Lady has rather set out the problem we have, which is measuring the number of women. She...

Will the Minister give way?

If I may, I will make some progress.

The hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley in particular ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will in a moment, if I may.

The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana John...

rose—

I know that the hon. Gentleman wants to intervene—very quickly.

The Minister knows perfectly well that I do not want to divide the House on my amendments, becaus...

Yes. I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman.

If I may, I am going to gallop to the f...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

It is a real pleasure to have made...

I raised on Report the link between rough sex and pornography, with recent surveys indicating tha...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the way in which she brought the issue to the debate via her ...

While my right hon. and learned Friend is in the mood to concede and be generous, might I ask him...

My right hon. Friend he tempts me into new territory. As the Government and I develop a White Pap...

I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for the kind remarks he made earlier. He has ju...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, and with alacrity I give her that undertaking. I know that...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Gentleman the Lord Chancellor. After three years, I am ...

That gives me the opportunity to thank the other members of the Committee in both Houses, the oth...

I could not agree with the right hon. Lady more about the Clerks of the House. I had not quite un...

Those were two very powerful speeches, which is right because this is a really important Bill. It...

In the last few minutes remaining, I want to thank the Government for bringing forward this impor...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to place on the record my thanks to all the off...

As the most brilliant lawyer in the Chamber—[ Interruption. ] —in the House, the Lord Chancellor ...