Nightclub Safety

I welcome the hon. Member’s comments. That is what the UK Government need to do, working hand in ...

My hon. Friend mentioned very good work by Swansea police, but she may not be aware of a case tha...

My hon. Friend makes a valid point. I do not think his case is an isolated incident. These incide...

My point is that it is imperative that the police take these issues very seriously on all occasio...

I agree with my hon. Friend. He is right––there can be no excuses. The police need to investigate...

Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a real need for a systemic approach to capturing data on ...

My hon. Friend has made absolutely wonderful and excellent points. This should be data driven, an...

The issue that we are addressing today was raised with me, before the recent media attention, by ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. It is really shocking to find out that school students i...

Tomorrow, North Yorkshire police will have a multi-agency meeting, including with universities an...

I thank my hon. Friend for her comments about trauma services. As we have seen, those services ar...

I welcome today’s extremely important debate. I agree overwhelmingly with what other Members have...

I totally respect the hon. Member’s comments about men. It is just that the victims in this case ...

I absolutely welcome what the hon. Lady says, and I am grateful to her for it.

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Suddenly we are having a debate.

I totally respect what the hon. Gentleman says. Of course, we should not undo the fact that many ...

As I have said, my instinct is with the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Gower, but I have been ...

The basic point is that 5.2% of sexual assaults involve drugging people. Of those, 5% are against...

I hope the hon. Gentleman will not mind me saying that any fair-minded person listening to my rem...

The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point, but I hope he will agree that we have to educate our youn...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising the issue of schools. Every time I listen to teachers,...

I will pick up on some of the points made by the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker) and by my hon...

Does my hon. Friend agree that this problem has a new face to it but, as he has pointed out, it h...

I agree entirely with my hon. Friend that there is an urgent need for the data, which I think was...

I apologise that I was not able to be present for the start of the debate—I was in a Delegated Le...

I absolutely agree with the point made by my hon. Friend: it is about changing behaviour among pe...

Going out and having fun is an important part of everyone’s life. We need it for our general well...

Wycombe!

I mean the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker)—I am terrible with names. We need to bring everybod...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. As the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hob...

Is my hon. Friend as concerned as I am about reports of Metropolitan police WhatsApp groups conta...

I agree. We should highlight that one bad apple does not exist in isolation with the Met police; ...

The shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Jess Phillips), was unavoidably det...

Thank you, Mr Gray. I apologise to all assembled. I tried to leave the Chamber but was called as ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and she is also right that we do not really know what is goin...

Order. You must be brief.

My hon. Friend is right. Both these things are problems, which is why it is really important that...

I agree, although I have to say that even that kind of spiking is not necessarily a new phenomeno...

Does the hon. Member feel, as I do, that there might be a fatality at some point? Then we would t...

Every single constituency Member of Parliament who has ever tried to get any sort of road safety ...

The reality is that this is all about an assault against a woman, and somebody invading her space...

The underreporting of this, and of all violence against women and girls, is well charted. We esti...

My hon. Friend is making a very powerful speech, as she always does on this subject. Does she sha...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and our hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Ma...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I am extremely grateful to all Member...

No, no, no.

Perhaps not. I certainly, in common with the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Jess Phillips),...

On the point of going out in the past, would the Minister agree that we need to see more women an...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right that the night-time economy is vital. It is very important that...

I am very grateful for what the Minister has said. Will she undertake to carry out some kind of p...

My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. We have a number of communication plans within the ...

There are lots of numbers floating around, and many of them probably underestimate the scale of t...

I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s remarks, and it is important that we continue to ensure that we ga...

Will the Minister clarify what she will do quickly to make sure that all nightclubs follow the go...

I am coming to that, and I very much hope to satisfy the hon. Lady. It is important that I make i...

Will the Minister give way?

I will allow the hon. Lady to intervene, but I also need to allow some time for the hon. Member f...

How many licensing committees does the Minister think have their eye on violence against women an...

I can assure the hon. Lady that we insist on it and require them to do so, and it is part of thei...

I welcome the comments that the Minister has made in response to the petition and I thank everybo...