Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill

I thank my hon. Friend for raising that point. The whole point of the Bill is to stop young peopl...

May I put on record my deep gratitude to my hon. Friend for her tireless work on this Bill? She a...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for making that very fair point. These children have bee...

I thank the hon. Member for giving way; she is always very generous with her time. She is making ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point, because young people who are married are often taken o...

I add my own words of congratulation to my hon. Friend on bringing this important Bill forward an...

We are not targeting any community in particular, but there are obviously some areas where people...

It is striking that, this week, the Foreign Secretary announced £18 million to tackle child marri...

It does seem that certain parts of Government are way ahead. One problem, which I will come on to...

It is striking that my hon. Friend is talking about violence against women—next week we have the ...

I thank my hon. Friend for that point. We have seen that in the case of FGM, where we have had on...

May I commend my hon. Friend for bringing this vital piece of legislation to the House? I know th...

I thank the Secretary of State for his intervention. When he got the opportunity to present a pri...

We have heard a grim account of some of the problems, and we have properly considered them and lo...

I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. As I mentioned to him earlier, I have been married ...

I just want to say that the hon. Lady is not the only one who has been married for so long. I hav...

So obviously, the institution of marriage is a good thing. I do not ever want to stop people gett...

Order. I am sure there was not somebody clapping then.

10.10 am

I cannot tell you, Mr Speaker, how much I welcome this Bill and how grateful I am to my good frie...

Does my hon. Friend agree that forced marriages and honour-based abuse are interlinked with child...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend and thank him for his decades of campaigning against this ...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) for what, to those of us who ha...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) and my right hon. Friend...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) on introducing this Bill...

I entirely agree. This Bill essentially brings historical views of marriage and marriage legislat...

This has been a short, harmonious and positive debate, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid...

Obviously, this is a most welcome Bill, but the crucial part of it, which we have not talked abou...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I know from the time we spent toget...

Does my hon. Friend agree that this is about not only passing this Bill, but raising awareness? O...

I am grateful for that intervention as well. It could be argued that this Bill is addressing a na...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) for introducing this important ...

I welcome the Minister to his place—it is the first opportunity that I have had to do so. Does he...

My hon. Friend raises an important point. We are, of course, considering measures that relate to ...

Was my hon. Friend aware that Northern Ireland is consulting on changing the law there? Obviously...

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend. Of course, devolution and the devolution settlement is very...

I commend my hon. Friend for the repeated use of the word “child”; we are talking about children....

My hon. Friend is very generous. It is fair to say that this has been a team effort, spearheaded ...

When I hear my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) and the hon. Member for Rot...

My hon. Friend raises an important point. He, too, has been a vocal champion on these issues—not ...

My hon. Friend touches on an important point. The criminal justice system at present does not dea...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point, which I am mindful of as the victims Mini...

I will make two points. First, relationship education, where the issue could have been explained ...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for those points. I was not familiar with the teaspoon campaign, w...

I put on record my thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) for an exc...

My hon. Friend is a distinguished former council leader in her own right, and she brings an awful...

I apologise for interrupting, but the Minister made reference to a commissioner. I am interested ...

I think my hon. Friend is probably referring to deputy chief constable Maggie Blyth being the fir...

I am so glad to hear that the Minister has recognised the best practices in many local authoritie...

I thank the hon. Member for talking about the experiences in Ealing and the work his local author...

I thank everyone who has taken part in this debate today, because it is a life-changing event. It...