Protecting the Public and Justice for Victims — 9 Jun 2021 at 18:40
The majority of MPs voted to set up more temporary courts, and for a wide range of policing and justice related measures focused on protecting women and girls including increased sentences for rape and action to support victims of domestic abuse.
The motion supported by a majority of MPs in this vote was:
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That this House
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regrets the unprecedented backlog of more than 57,000 Crown Court cases, as well as record low convictions for rape and a collapse in convictions for all serious crime;
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calls on the Government to set up more Nightingale Courts, to enshrine victims’ rights in law and to introduce the proposals set out in Labour’s ‘Ending Violence Against Women and Girls’ Green Paper; and
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further calls on the Secretary of State for Justice to update the House in person on progress made in reducing the court backlog by 22 July.
Labour’s ‘Ending Violence Against Women and Girls’ Green Paper[1] stated included proposals for:
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* increased sentences for rape, stalking and domestic murder – as well as introducing whole life tariffs for those who rape, abduct and murder a stranger
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* new statutory minimum sentence (with exceptions for exceptional circumstances) of seven years for rape
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* statutory defences for victims of domestic abuse who may have been coerced into committing certain crimes
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* a new street sexual harassment offence
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* recording misogyny as a hate crime and including sex and gender in the list of protected characteristics in hate crime laws
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* creating a new offence of offering 'sex for rent'
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* increasing the maximum sentence for publishing the identity of a sexual offences complainant from a £5,000 fine to two years in prison.
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* ensuring all criminal justice professionals dealing with rape victims are trained in trauma-informed practice on rape myths and stereotypes
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* mandatory training for the judiciary in the family court to increase understanding of domestic abuse.
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* expanding the use and functions of Specialist Domestic Violence Courts.
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* free and independent legal advice and representation for victims of sexual offences
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* access to legal aid in domestic abuse cases was offered without reference to capital or income-based means testing.
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* a minimum provision of Rape and Serious Sexual Assault Offence (RASSO) units in police forces
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* preventing police forces sharing details of migrant victims of domestic abuse with the Home Office
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* serial domestic abusers and stalkers to be monitored under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements and via the Sexual Offenders Register.
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* removal of the presumption that a parent should have contact with their child when domestic abuse to the child or other parent has occurred.
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* prohibition of unsupervised contact with their children for a parent awaiting trial or on bail for domestic abuse offences, or where there are ongoing criminal proceedings for domestic abuse
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* accreditation of centres for parents who don't live with their children to meet their children
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* creation of a specific ministerial position with oversight for rape and sexual violence survivors
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* a duty on all relevant public authorities to commission specialist domestic abuse support services for all persons affected by domestic abuse
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* granting enhanced housing benefit to providers of 'exempt accommodation' targeted at domestic abuse victims and ensure that unscrupulous providers or landlords cannot profit from the provision of substandard or inappropriate accommodation.
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* introducing specific funding streams to support specialist services for migrant victims, Black, Asian and ethnic minority victims, LGBT+ victims and disabled victims including providing accessible information and support, for example using different languages, brail and BSL.
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* training for teachers to help identify, respond to and support child victims of domestic abuse
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* collecting national data on sexual harassment across schools and colleges
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* ending the two-child limit for child tax credit and replacing Universal Credit
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Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
Stephen Kinnock | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | tellno |
Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
Angela Rayner | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | aye |
Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab | aye |
Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab | aye |
Stephanie Peacock | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Wera Hobhouse | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Marsha de Cordova | Battersea | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mohammad Yasin | Bedford | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gavin Robinson | Belfast East | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Claire Hanna | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
Neil Coyle | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mick Whitley | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Preet Kaur Gill | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tahir Ali | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab | aye |
Shabana Mahmood | Birmingham, Ladywood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | aye |
Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jess Phillips | Birmingham, Yardley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kate Hollern | Blackburn | Lab | aye |
Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liz Twist | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Peter Dowd | Bootle | Lab (minister) | aye |
Imran Hussain | Bradford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Judith Cummins | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Naseem Shah | Bradford West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Dawn Butler | Brent Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ruth Cadbury | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lloyd Russell-Moyle | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | aye |
Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Darren Jones | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Karin Smyth | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Thangam Debbonaire | Bristol West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jamie Stone | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rosie Duffield | Canterbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jo Stevens | Cardiff Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Anna McMorrin | Cardiff North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | whilst Independent | aye |
Ben Lake | Ceredigion | PC (front bench) | aye |
Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
Chris Matheson | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mary Foy | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Colleen Fletcher | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Taiwo Owatemi | Coventry North West | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
Zarah Sultana | Coventry South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Jones | Croydon Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Steve Reed | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Beth Winter | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jon Cruddas | Dagenham and Rainham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
Rupa Huq | Ealing Central and Acton | Lab (minister) | aye |
James Murray | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Christine Jardine | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Kate Osamor | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Justin Madders | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Feryal Clark | Enfield North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bambos Charalambous | Enfield, Southgate | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Abena Oppong-Asare | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Colum Eastwood | Foyle | SDLP | aye |
Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tonia Antoniazzi | Gower | Lab (minister) | aye |
Matthew Pennycook | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
Holly Lynch | Halifax | Lab (minister) | aye |
Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tulip Siddiq | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | aye |
Keir Starmer | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab (minister) | aye |
Catherine West | Hornsey and Wood Green | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Peter Kyle | Hove | Lab (minister) | aye |
Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
Wes Streeting | Ilford North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sam Tarry | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | whilst Independent | aye |
Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kate Osborne | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | aye |
Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Emma Hardy | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | aye |
George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Cat Smith | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab | aye |
Richard Burgon | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Sobel | Leeds North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Claudia Webbe | Leicester East | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Janet Daby | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ellie Reeves | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | aye |
Vicky Foxcroft | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kim Johnson | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | aye |
Dan Carden | Liverpool, Walton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paula Barker | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Byrne | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Owen | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rachel Hopkins | Luton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lucy Powell | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Afzal Khan | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jeff Smith | Manchester, Withington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gerald Jones | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andy McDonald | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | aye |
Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab (minister) | aye |
Christina Rees | Neath | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ruth Jones | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Stephen Farry | North Down | Alliance (front bench) | aye |
Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Wendy Chamberlain | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
Clive Lewis | Norwich South | Lab | aye |
Nadia Whittome | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Norris | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | tellno |
Chris Elmore | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jim McMahon | Oldham West and Royton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Anneliese Dodds | Oxford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Layla Moran | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Luke Pollard | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Davies-Jones | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | aye |
Apsana Begum | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stephen Morgan | Portsmouth South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Fleur Anderson | Putney | Lab (minister) | aye |
Matt Rodda | Reading East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Olney | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Tony Lloyd | Rochdale | Lab | aye |
Sarah Champion | Rotherham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Margaret Ferrier | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
Rebecca Long-Bailey | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab | aye |
Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gill Furniss | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
Olivia Blake | Sheffield, Hallam | Lab (minister) | aye |
Louise Haigh | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tan Dhesi | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paul Girvan | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Emma Lewell-Buck | South Shields | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
Daisy Cooper | St Albans | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Conor McGinn | St Helens North | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Marie Rimmer | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
Navendu Mishra | Stockport | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Streatham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Carolyn Harris | Swansea East | Lab | aye |
Geraint Davies | Swansea West | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Rosena Allin-Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nick Thomas-Symonds | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | aye |
David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Munira Wilson | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Carla Lockhart | Upper Bann | DUP | aye |
Florence Eshalomi | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | aye |
Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab | aye |
Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab | aye |
Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab | aye |
John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Charlotte Nichols | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Matt Western | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab | aye |
Mike Amesbury | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
Karen Buck | Westminster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Margaret Greenwood | Wirral West | Lab | aye |
Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rachael Maskell | York Central | Lab (minister) | aye |