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 |
Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tahir Ali | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rosena Allin-Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mike Amesbury | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | aye |
Fleur Anderson | Putney | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tonia Antoniazzi | Gower | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paula Barker | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | aye |
Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Apsana Begum | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | aye |
Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab | aye |
Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Olivia Blake | Sheffield, Hallam | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab | aye |
Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
Karen Buck | Westminster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Richard Burgon | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Dawn Butler | Brent Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Byrne | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab | aye |
Ruth Cadbury | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Dan Carden | Liverpool, Walton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Wendy Chamberlain | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Sarah Champion | Rotherham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bambos Charalambous | Enfield, Southgate | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Feryal Clark | Enfield North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Daisy Cooper | St Albans | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | whilst Independent | aye |
Neil Coyle | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab | aye |
Jon Cruddas | Dagenham and Rainham | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Judith Cummins | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Janet Daby | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | aye |
Geraint Davies | Swansea West | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Alex Davies-Jones | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | aye |
Marsha de Cordova | Battersea | Lab (minister) | aye |
Thangam Debbonaire | Bristol West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tan Dhesi | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
Anneliese Dodds | Oxford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Peter Dowd | Bootle | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rosie Duffield | Canterbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Colum Eastwood | Foyle | SDLP | aye |
Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | whilst Independent | aye |
Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Chris Elmore | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
Florence Eshalomi | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Stephen Farry | North Down | Alliance (front bench) | aye |
Margaret Ferrier | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
Colleen Fletcher | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
Vicky Foxcroft | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mary Foy | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gill Furniss | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Preet Kaur Gill | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paul Girvan | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | tellno |
Margaret Greenwood | Wirral West | Lab | aye |
Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
Louise Haigh | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Claire Hanna | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
Emma Hardy | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | aye |
Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Carolyn Harris | Swansea East | Lab | aye |
Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
Wera Hobhouse | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab | aye |
Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kate Hollern | Blackburn | Lab | aye |
Rachel Hopkins | Luton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rupa Huq | Ealing Central and Acton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Imran Hussain | Bradford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Christine Jardine | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab | aye |
Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kim Johnson | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | aye |
Darren Jones | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gerald Jones | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ruth Jones | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Jones | Croydon Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Afzal Khan | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stephen Kinnock | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
Peter Kyle | Hove | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ben Lake | Ceredigion | PC (front bench) | aye |
David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab | aye |
Emma Lewell-Buck | South Shields | Lab (minister) | aye |
Clive Lewis | Norwich South | Lab | aye |
Tony Lloyd | Rochdale | Lab | aye |
Carla Lockhart | Upper Bann | DUP | aye |
Rebecca Long-Bailey | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | aye |
Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
Holly Lynch | Halifax | Lab (minister) | aye |
Justin Madders | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | aye |
Shabana Mahmood | Birmingham, Ladywood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rachael Maskell | York Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Chris Matheson | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | aye |
Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andy McDonald | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Conor McGinn | St Helens North | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jim McMahon | Oldham West and Royton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Anna McMorrin | Cardiff North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Navendu Mishra | Stockport | Lab (minister) | aye |
Layla Moran | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stephen Morgan | Portsmouth South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
James Murray | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | aye |
Charlotte Nichols | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Norris | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Olney | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Abena Oppong-Asare | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kate Osamor | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kate Osborne | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | aye |
Taiwo Owatemi | Coventry North West | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
Sarah Owen | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Stephanie Peacock | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Matthew Pennycook | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jess Phillips | Birmingham, Yardley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Luke Pollard | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lucy Powell | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Angela Rayner | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | aye |
Steve Reed | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Christina Rees | Neath | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
Ellie Reeves | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Streatham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Marie Rimmer | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gavin Robinson | Belfast East | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Matt Rodda | Reading East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lloyd Russell-Moyle | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
Naseem Shah | Bradford West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
Tulip Siddiq | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | aye |
Cat Smith | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jeff Smith | Manchester, Withington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | aye |
Karin Smyth | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Sobel | Leeds North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Keir Starmer | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jo Stevens | Cardiff Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jamie Stone | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Wes Streeting | Ilford North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Zarah Sultana | Coventry South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | tellno |
Sam Tarry | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nick Thomas-Symonds | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | aye |
Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | aye |
Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liz Twist | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab | aye |
Claudia Webbe | Leicester East | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
Catherine West | Hornsey and Wood Green | Lab (minister) | aye |
Matt Western | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mick Whitley | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nadia Whittome | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
Munira Wilson | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Beth Winter | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mohammad Yasin | Bedford | Lab (minister) | aye |
Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge | Lab (minister) | aye |