# Quote candidates (all relevant/review hits)


## viagra (1 hits)

- **Chris Bryant** | 2015-12-03 | Business of the House | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-12-03/debates/15120362000003/debate#contribution-15120362000279
  > You sat in that chair yesterday, Mr Speaker, from 11.30 am to 10.54 pm, as I am sure you are aware. By my accounting, that is 11 hours and 24 minutes, or 684 minutes without a break. That is quite a test of endurance, and some of us are wondering whether, like Davros in “Doctor Who” you have secretly had some kind of feeding and filtration system fitted into the chair or some hidden tubes. Or perhaps it is down to drugs. Now that the pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Allergan, the owners of Viagra and Botox, have come together, perhaps they have invented a new drug, with which you have been impregnated, Mr Speaker, which means that you can keep a stiff upper lip all day. Over the last few days, a great deal of abuse has been hurled at Members for their views on whether or not we should support extending airstrikes to Syria. Some Members have been called murderers, others peaceniks and ter


## brothel (6 hits)

- **Chris Bryant** | 2003-11-03 | Penalties For Keeping A Brothel | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2003-11-03/debates/506dd057-e223-4054-ac2c-dea956dc33ec/debate#contribution-f5270518-c27d-4d7c-b427-09dd2501fd43
  > I wholly agree with what my hon. Friend is saying, but in the provision there is an assumption that we all know what a brothel is, and I am sure that he is aware that that is somewhat uncertain in law. Indeed, under section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 a brothel would include anywhere to which people resorted for the purpose of lewd homosexual practices. I wonder whether my hon. Friend intends at any point to reform the law so that it is a bit clearer on precisely what a brothel is.

- **Chris Bryant** | 2003-11-03 | Penalties For Keeping A Brothel | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2003-11-03/debates/506dd057-e223-4054-ac2c-dea956dc33ec/debate#contribution-ef6e43b7-0461-408a-8de8-0ef1b5d39d42
  > There is no definition of what constitutes a brothel in law, so we rely on judgments for definitions. In the case of Gorman v. Standen in 1964, Lord Parker said that a brothel was "a house resorted to or used by more than one woman for the purposes of fornication". Surely the question of whether one or several women are involved must form part of the debate that we will have during the review.

- **Yvette Cooper** | 2014-07-08 | Modern Slavery Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-07-08/debates/14070874000001/debate#contribution-14070874000144
  > I will do that and I agree with my hon. Friend. We would like the law and the Bill to be strengthened on child guardians and child offences. Let me make a few points about that. My hon. Friend is right that the situation for children can be complex, and often the adult who is abusing them is the only adult they know: the only adult with whom they have contact and who speaks their language, if they have been trafficked across borders. Charities describe finding children who do not even know which country they are in. Some are sexually exploited in brothels or tend cannabis factories, like Deng, who was trafficked from Vietnam to work as a gardener in a cannabis factory. When police raided the house, Deng was arrested and spent almost a year in prison. On release, he fell back into the hands of traffickers, who regularly beat him so badly that he was hospitalised. Passed from local authori

- **Chris Bryant** | 2016-10-21 |  Sexual Offences (Pardons Etc) Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-10-21/debates/DD6089AE-523C-4707-9773-4262BB9415BD/debate#contribution-93E6E91B-0549-4D3C-86B3-98265E58F19D
  > May I correct the hon. Gentleman slightly? There is no definition of a brothel in law. Common law allows the courts to determine that a brothel is a place frequented by men to perform lewd homosexual practices including dancing, and the term has often been used in that sense. There is still plenty on the statute book that needs to be reformed.

- **Jonathan Reynolds** | 2020-11-09 | Supporting Disadvantaged Families | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-11-09/debates/640B734D-982A-46E7-8B6C-8576D161FCC1/debate#contribution-43867D2C-C72D-43A7-AA94-A87E157D1613
  > I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement. The Opposition welcome any move that will stop children going hungry over the tough months that lie ahead. I would hope that that is true of everyone elected to this Parliament, so I still cannot believe that the Government have had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the right place and to acknowledge that, in this country, in this day and age, no child should be going hungry. I am astonished that the Government can somehow pretend that we did not all hear hours and hours of justification from them, in this House just a fortnight ago, for why they thought the absolute opposite of what has been announced today. In my 10 years in Parliament, I have never been so depressed as I was when I listened to the comments made on the Conservative Benches during the holiday hunger debate and on social media afterwards. That was no

- **Yvette Cooper** | 2023-03-13 | Illegal Migration Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-03-13/debates/97D4F67E-2C1B-44CB-B860-DD9024958EEF/debate#contribution-51E2E9DC-E39C-4248-9A5C-2249C04F4E4F
  > As the hon. Member knows, the majority of people who are seeking asylum and arrive in France stay in France, rather than seeking to travel to the UK. However, we believe that we should be seeking to get a returns agreement with France, alongside new arrangements on issues such as family reunion, but at the moment, the Government have so undermined their relationship with France and other European countries that they have totally failed to get any of those agreements in place, and they are making it harder to do so with this Bill. If the hon. Member believes that returns agreements are needed, or if he believes that new, alternative arrangements around family reunion or other issues are needed, he should oppose the Bill, because it will make it harder to get any of those agreements in place. The Bill is undermining the international co-operation and international law that all of those oth


## erectile (1 hits)

- **Alex Norris** | 2021-11-01 | Endometriosis and Polycystic  Ovary Syndrome | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-11-01/debates/F9D63099-1635-443C-9927-9297F0A7E9F3/debate#contribution-20199D90-73A2-40FF-8CB4-AD77A12ABF9D
  > Mr Mundell, you talked about doing justice to Sir David’s memory. Like possibly everybody in this place, my friendship with David was one that was funny and light. I loved how serious and passionate he was about the issues that he cared about, so I think we have done justice to his memory today. Everybody can be proud of that, none more so than my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry North West (Taiwo Owatemi), who, as she said, could have talked dispassionately about this issue, but it was much better for her not having done so. Similarly, I always have pride and admiration for anybody who goes down the petitions route to secure a debate in this place, because it is very hard to do. The fact that they have been successful demonstrates the strength of feeling. If that petition came from a place of frustration that these two conditions, endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome, lack pub


## kama sutra (2 hits)

- **Lucy Powell** | 2025-07-03 |  Business of the House | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-07-03/debates/3C633FAA-9179-4113-884F-CE4FABAF491D/debate#contribution-736CABC3-A86F-4BB6-ACF1-AE98CFE129C2
  > I start by sending all our condolences to the friends and family of Liverpool football club star, Diogo Jota, following the shocking news of his and his brother’s death in a tragic car accident. It came only two weeks after his wedding and after winning last season’s premier league. I am sure the thoughts of the whole House are with his family, friends, Liverpool teammates and former Wolves teammates. I also send my best wishes to the Lionesses at the start of the Euros. Tomorrow is Action Mesothelioma Day. I commend all the campaigners who continue to fight for justice for those who have died or are ill as a result of asbestos cancer. My dear friends and former colleagues, Tony Lloyd and Paul Goggins, sadly no longer with us, were real champions of this cause and I pay tribute to them. May I take this opportunity, Mr Speaker—I would rarely do this—to put on record how proud I am of my f

- **Ed Miliband** | 2026-05-19 | Energy Security | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-05-19/debates/D5DB72B8-ED1C-4EC2-A82B-71867F875E8B/debate#contribution-BA314FF4-6BBF-42DB-BBD1-EC5B159E4721
  > The SNP has had more positions on this than the Kama Sutra, so it is genuinely hard to keep up. We have a very simple position: we want to keep existing oil and gas fields open for their lifetime. One of the things that the energy independence Bill will do is introduce transitional energy certificates—so-called tiebacks—which is what industry has called for. We are not in favour of a “turning off the taps” position, but I will be honest with the House: nor are we in favour of a “drilling every last drop” position.


## strip club (2 hits)

- **Angela Eagle** | 2014-07-03 | Business of the House | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-07-03/debates/14070342000002/debate#contribution-14070342000233
  > I thank the Leader of the House for announcing next week’s business. On Monday, we will have the first allotted day for the debate on the estimates. That is an arcane and opaque process that does little to scrutinise the actual spending of the Government. Does the Leader of the House agree that we need to reform the estimates process to ensure real scrutiny? Will he support my call for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to answer questions in the Chamber on the estimates, separately from the Budget, and for each Cabinet Minister to have a yearly Budget question and answer on spending in their Department? On Tuesday, we will debate the Modern Slavery Bill, which the Opposition support but which in some areas does not go far enough. Will the Leader of the House tell us whether his Government will accept our amendments to provide statutory legal guardians for child victims of trafficking, and 

- **Angela Eagle** | 2015-02-12 | Business of the House | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-02-12/debates/15021269000004/debate#contribution-15021269000424
  > I thank the Leader of the House for announcing the post-recess business. On Tuesday, the Standards Committee published a review of the standards system in the Commons, led by the lay members. We need radical action to restore trust in our political system, so I thank the Committee for the report, which contains some sensible recommendations. Will the Leader of the House set out how he intends to take the report forward, and will he tell me if he will act on my suggestion and remove the Government majority on the Committee to address concerns about the Government protecting their own? Yesterday’s report from Sir Robert Francis revealed that nearly a quarter of NHS staff have experienced bullying or harassment—a problem that is all too prevalent in other workplaces across the country too. Given that the Government were quick to welcome the Francis report but have made it their mission to m


## lap dance (7 hits)

- **Alan Campbell** | 2008-10-27 | Topical Questions | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2008-10-27/debates/0810274000022/debate#contribution-0810274000147
  > We recognise that there is public concern about this matter, and agree that current licensing arrangements are inadequate. Local people have legitimate concerns for objecting to the planned location of a lap-dancing club, and we want to empower local authorities to take account of those legitimate concerns. The Home Secretary has committed the Government to bringing forward changes as soon as is practically possible.

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000720
  > The purpose is to give communities the opportunity to have their say. In some cases they accept lap-dancing clubs, but in many cases they oppose them. The measure is about empowering communities that do not feel that they are, or have been, part of the process to date. There is a concern that lap-dancing clubs have grown in number, and that they could continue to grow in number unless communities are able to have a stronger say. Under the changes that we propose, if a lap-dancing club is a well-established and well-run establishment, there is no reason why it would not continue in business. The measures address the deficit that there was in the past, with regard to what local communities were able to say about lap-dancing clubs, particularly new ones, in their area.

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000722
  > We are currently working on that. The other debate on grandfather rights that I remember was on the introduction of the Licensing Act 2003. The reality is that lap-dancing clubs will, like other establishments, need to be licensed. If local authorities adopt the legislation, such clubs will, at some point, need to be licensed. We are not saying that the legislation will do away with lap-dancing clubs; that was never the intention, and it is not the intention now.

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000724
  > If establishments have rushed to apply for a licence before the legislation comes into force, thinking that they will thereby get some advantage in the long run when their local authority adopts the legislation, that view is misplaced. It would be short-sighted of them to do so. The reality is that they will be subject to the legislation, as will new lap-dancing clubs. We understand that there are concerns about aspects of clause 25, including the decision to remove venues that provide infrequent entertainment of the type that we are discussing from the definition of a sex encounter venue. The purpose of the provision is to recognise that not all premises that provide relevant entertainment should be classed as sex encounter venues. An example is a pub that hosts a birthday party for which a strippergram has been booked; we do not believe that such premises should be regulated in the sam

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000716
  > I think that we have to take one step back from those circumstances. We heard in Committee, and in the evidence sessions, about men who had come forward to say that they believed that women had been trafficked, or were being controlled for gain. They had alerted the women about where they might seek support in order to exit from prostitution, but I think that we have to take one step back from that and say to men: “If you get involved in these situations, it is no good saying that you didn’t know.” One might say: “How do you not know something that you do not know?” but that is a risk that they take. The bottom line is that if a person visits a prostitute, and there is any suggestion or hint that the prostitute was trafficked or is controlled for gain, or if the question even is in their mind, the person should not go ahead. That is a choice that they can make. To add to that, as the hon

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000740
  > My hon. Friend and I have discussed this at great length. We do not share the same views, but we have the same concerns. When we went out to consultation, no shortage of local authorities clearly indicated that, were the powers available, they would take them up. Ultimately, my hon. Friend’s constituents decide the fate of the local authority. A local authority or lap dancing club that thought it could set itself against a local community would be short-sighted. It is important that local people hold local authorities to account. If lap-dancing clubs are a big issue in their area, the excuses that my hon. Friend attributes to her local authority would not hold water with residents. I shall move on to other important issues and try to deal with them properly and quickly, as I am taking up a great deal of time. On the decriminalisation of under-18 prostitution, new clause 4 seeks to amend 

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-11-12 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-11-12/debates/09111250000002/debate#contribution-09111250000853
  > Amendments 6 to 15 respond to the concerns raised during the debates in this House about the potential scope of clause 13. Broadly, the amendments mean that it will be an offence to pay for sex with someone who has been subject to exploitative conduct of a kind likely to induce or encourage them to provide the sexual services. A person engages in exploitative conduct if he practices any form of deception or uses force, threats—whether or not relating to violence—or any other form of coercion. This recognises that not all forms of coercion involve the use of physical abuse. Amendment 46 responds to concerns raised in this House and in the other place about the need for safeguards in the provisions creating the new rehabilitative orders for those convicted of loitering or soliciting for the purposes of prostitution. The amendment places an upper limit of 72 hours on the period for which so


## intercourse (3 hits)

- **Ed Miliband** | 2011-05-18 | Engagements | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2011-05-18/debates/11051871000053/debate#contribution-11051871000139
  > Let me tell the Prime Minister what the Justice Secretary said this morning. He was asked about the average sentence a rapist gets. The interviewer said, “A rapist gets five years,” and then the Justice Secretary said in reply, “That includes date rape, 17-year-olds having intercourse with 15-year-olds”. He went on to say that there were categories of “forcible rape” and “serious rape”. The Justice Secretary cannot speak for the women of this country when he makes comments like that.

- **Baroness Smith of Basildon** | 2012-06-13 | Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Controlled Activity and Prescribed Criteria) Regulations 2012 | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2012-06-13/debates/12061369000100/debate#contribution-12061377000024
  > I am grateful to the Minister. He tried very hard to think of mitigating circumstances and has been unable to do so. The noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, refers to the age difference. I am very well aware of that. As the noble Lord said, Section 28 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act refers to sexual intercourse with an older child. If someone is convicted, we are not talking about a borderline offence where the police do not know whether to prosecute. If someone is convicted of sexual assault on a young child with penetration, I cannot understand what mitigating circumstance there could be. There are other offences here, such as causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent or trafficking people for sexual exploitation, where I do not understand what the mitigating circumstances might be. Given that regulated activity is now more tightly drawn, we should be more careful 

- **Angela Eagle** | 2024-03-07 | LGBT History Month | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-03-07/debates/521A216B-902C-4DC3-B122-774E39D2FD45/debate#contribution-C9455F25-B493-4501-8757-6A337FDB3465
  > It is a great luxury not to be pushed for time these days in the House and, Mr Stringer, you tempt me; but let us see how we get on. I particularly welcomed the Mayor of London’s announcement about the renaming of the overland train lines after what I think are progressive causes, one of which my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) just mentioned, and a pretty fantastic football team—even if they have to keep proving themselves over and over again. As I was saying, this is a time to remember the past but also to be clear-eyed about some of the potential problems that face us, as a global LGBT community as well as a community in this country. This debate gives us a chance to do that. LGBT+ History Month 2024 celebrated the community contributions to medicine and healthcare, as my hon. Friend said in her intervention. It also highlighted the community’s blighted histor


## prostitute (13 hits)

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000682
  > I intend to cover that very point. It is important that we have a workable definition that does the job we ask it to do, but it is also important that we have a proportionate response. I shall return not just to strict liability but to the penalties that flow from such offences. We expect our proposed definition to cover most cases when a prostitute is still under the control of traffickers. We also expect it to cover most of the cases intended to be captured by the fourth scenario mentioned in new clause 25, whereby someone is directed or instructed to provide sexual services but the person does not consent to that direction, provided that they were not simply free to ignore it. In such cases, we imagine that such directions or instructions would be backed up by force or threats. Our new clause will deal with the case of a prostitute who agrees to work as a prostitute because their pimp

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000696
  > The hon. Gentleman is in danger of making our case for us. The difficulty in holding people to account has led us to introduce the strict liability clause and although he does not accept it, the penalty we propose is proportionate because it corresponds with other actions that can be taken to suppress demand. He asks me for examples of prosecutions for rape. My understanding is that the figures would not be broken down in that way; if that is not true, I shall set out the alternative. We could not say categorically whether people had been prosecuted for rape in such circumstances, but we must not lose sight of the reality that the men we are talking about have not been held to account. Whether the evidence—in the view of some people—would be akin to rape or whether it was actually evidence of rape, men have walked away from their responsibilities. The offence is one of the measures that 

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000716
  > I think that we have to take one step back from those circumstances. We heard in Committee, and in the evidence sessions, about men who had come forward to say that they believed that women had been trafficked, or were being controlled for gain. They had alerted the women about where they might seek support in order to exit from prostitution, but I think that we have to take one step back from that and say to men: “If you get involved in these situations, it is no good saying that you didn’t know.” One might say: “How do you not know something that you do not know?” but that is a risk that they take. The bottom line is that if a person visits a prostitute, and there is any suggestion or hint that the prostitute was trafficked or is controlled for gain, or if the question even is in their mind, the person should not go ahead. That is a choice that they can make. To add to that, as the hon

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000689
  > We are saying that we have to be careful about the language we use. The hon. Gentleman may be dismissive of the fact, but someone who uses a woman who is a prostitute is different from someone who exploits them for gain. There is a clear distinction and as we are talking about moving to a better definition it is important that we get the language absolutely right, or as close as we can. New clauses 25 and 26 seek to address the other significant issue that has been discussed in relation to the offence—strict liability. We cannot accept the other amendments that have been tabled on the issue and we have concerns about that aspect of the new clauses. We still believe that strict liability is the most effective way of ensuring that those who pay for sex are forced to consider the circumstances of the prostitute who will be providing the sexual services, and that it protects those who have n

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000754
  > I cannot give my hon. Friend any estimates off the top of my head, but I shall find out that information for him. He will know that when similar provisions were introduced in other legislation, a time scale of 72 hours was mentioned, but it was felt to be too long. We sought to introduce the phrase “as soon as practicable” to make the time scale shorter than 72 hours. In some people’s eyes, it opens up the measure to an indefinite extension, but that is not what we propose. Given that a prostitute may be picked up on a Friday, with little prospect of going before a court until the following Monday, we believe that the measure is an appropriate response.

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000711
  > Of course, Madam Deputy Speaker, it is a matter for your discretion, but I hope that my hon. Friend catches your eye, because I want to listen carefully to her remarks, as I do to those of other Members. She has a great deal to say about the psychological pressure that women are put under in such circumstances and about the concern that our current definition will not address that, but let me make it clear—this goes back to what was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak—that we do not want to exclude any vulnerable woman in prostitution from the protection afforded by the offence. So we will be interested to hear views on this important matter if my hon. Friend and other hon. Members who want to express them are called to speak. I hope that my explanation has at least highlighted the difficulty of defining what we are trying to combat. I also hope that a constructiv

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000673
  > Of course, CEOP plays a vital part in tackling this hideous crime. It is important that police officers in forces across the country are aware of this criminality and are able to spot it and know what to do with it. We will bring forward guidance in due course. I want to move now to the issue of “controlled for gain”, which took a great deal of time to debate in Committee. The debate in Committee was positive and constructive, even though we did not always agree. Amendments 142 and 143 would remove clause 13 and clause 14 respectively and replace those clauses with a new offence that seeks to address some of the concerns that have been raised about those clauses as the Bill has progressed. First, they seek to clarify the scope of the offence. In Committee, there were concerns that that the phrase “controlled for gain” was too wide and not sufficiently clear. We have tabled our own amendm

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000748
  > I am not sure that there will never be a stigma associated with prostitution in some people’s eyes, because it raises very strong feelings. However, we are looking for a series of practical measures to bear down on the demand for prostitutes when they have been controlled for gain and, in particular, when they may have been trafficked. We are offering a way out for prostitutes who wish to exit the sex industry, and, as part of that process, we believe that orders are very important. Amendment 6 would narrow the definition of “persistence”, so that the offence of loitering and soliciting could be used to protect those found loitering and soliciting only on two occasions in one week. We believe that that would be unenforceable in terms of police resources, so we cannot accept the amendment. If someone is found loitering and soliciting within a three-month period, which is a relatively shor

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-05-19 |  Policing and Crime Bill | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-05-19/debates/09051970000002/debate#contribution-09051991000740
  > My hon. Friend and I have discussed this at great length. We do not share the same views, but we have the same concerns. When we went out to consultation, no shortage of local authorities clearly indicated that, were the powers available, they would take them up. Ultimately, my hon. Friend’s constituents decide the fate of the local authority. A local authority or lap dancing club that thought it could set itself against a local community would be short-sighted. It is important that local people hold local authorities to account. If lap-dancing clubs are a big issue in their area, the excuses that my hon. Friend attributes to her local authority would not hold water with residents. I shall move on to other important issues and try to deal with them properly and quickly, as I am taking up a great deal of time. On the decriminalisation of under-18 prostitution, new clause 4 seeks to amend 

- **Alan Campbell** | 2009-12-09 |  National DNA Database | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2009-12-09/debates/09120945000001/debate#contribution-09120945000158
  > Okay. Let me try this example for the hon. Gentleman. Steve Wright murdered five prostitutes in Ipswich in 2003. A DNA sample was taken from him when he was arrested on suspicion of theft. His DNA profile subsequently matched DNA from the body of one of the five women murdered in Ipswich in 2006. Wright was eventually charged with and convicted of the five murders, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The hon. Gentleman referred to the small number of cases in which DNA is appropriate. Let me add significant cases, and let him make his case to the victims’ families, because I assure him that their view is different.

- **Yvette Cooper** | 2011-04-04 | Government Reductions in Policing | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2011-04-04/debates/11040420000001/debate#contribution-11040420000149
  > In fact, at the time of the election unemployment was falling, the economy was growing and borrowing was lower than expected, whereas nearly 12 months on we have seen borrowing come in higher than expected, unemployment continue to rise and growth stall. The hon. Gentleman should, perhaps, consider those points when he thinks about the impact these foolish decisions are having on public services. I was contacted last week by a local beat officer from the west midlands, and I want to read out what he said about the job he did: “When I arrived it was a run-down, deprived area frequented by pimps, prostitutes, druggies and drug dealers. By working with the community we were able to change it into an area where the residents were happy to walk the streets at all times of the day and night. Crime was reduced and the feel-good factor returned. The local community saw me every day. If I wasn’t 

- **Baroness Smith of Basildon** | 2015-03-02 | Serious Crime Bill [HL] | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2015-03-02/debates/15030227000659/debate#contribution-15030227000048
  > My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation of these amendments. It is helpful and we certainly welcome them. I am also grateful to him for recognising the persistence of my noble friend Lord Harris of Haringey on this matter. When he first raised the issue the Government were initially reluctant to take it on board not because they were not supportive of what he was trying to do, which was to think differently around these issues with the child as a victim. Even though the child might be engaged in sending sexually explicit messages or photographs, the child was still the victim. I referred at the time to a case that I was aware of whereby an older man was pretending to be a 14 year- old girl in order to get a real 14 year-old girl to send messages and photographs of herself quite willingly. But she was clearly a victim and was being exploited. We are grateful to my noble friend 

- **Chris Bryant** | 2016-02-04 | Preventing Violence Against Women: Role of Men | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-02-04/debates/16020470000001/debate#contribution-16020470000121
  > I wanted to speak in this debate for the simple reason that in my constituency, the Rhondda, probably the single biggest issue that takes up the most police time and causes the most damage to the individuals and the community I seek to represent is domestic violence against women. Every Thursday, Friday and, in particular, Saturday night is a tough night for the police in the south Wales valleys, and certainly in the Rhondda. They often have to deal with issues for many days afterwards. Sometimes things are very complicated because somebody makes a complaint and then wants to withdraw it. There are many complicated issues relating to whether and how the police should pursue such matters, let alone how the Crown Prosecution Service acts. In my 15 years as an MP, the majority of murders in my constituency have involved one partner killing another, and there have been several cases in which


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- **Chris Bryant** | 2007-10-11 | Human Rights | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2007-10-11/debates/07101138000001/debate#contribution-07101138000123
  > My first political memory is from the age of nine, when my family was living in Franco’s Spain in 1971. We lived not far from Carabanchel, of which most British people will never have heard, but which was the main political prison where Franco kept all those who disagreed with him. I remember my parents, myself and my younger brother going past it in the car on a very misty afternoon when Franco was visiting for some reason, so that every 100 m there was a guardia civil officer with one of those tricorn hats and a very long cape. I felt very intensely the sense of repression that can be the first or perhaps the last step of human rights abuses. In 1986, I spent three months working in a shanty town in Lima, in Peru, and then six months working for a human rights organisation in Buenos Aires, where I was also studying part-time at the protestant theological college. One night, I went for 

- **Baroness Smith of Basildon** | 2014-10-28 | Serious Crime Bill [HL] | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2014-10-28/debates/14102898000433/debate#contribution-14102898000138
  > My Lords, in moving Amendment 44, I shall also speak to Amendment 44A. I thank those who have co-sponsored the amendments: my noble friend Lord Rosser, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Rochester, the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, and the noble Lords, Lord McColl of Dulwich and Lord Pannick. There are a number of amendments in the group and I welcome that the Minister has tabled amendments that mirror ours. This is a real opportunity not only to ensure meaningful changes to the law but also to ensure that the law is enforced. The term FGM is becoming more widely known. Many people have a vague understanding that it means that a female, usually a young girl, is cut and her genitals mutilated, but I am not convinced that the absolute horror and brutality of what is involved is as well understood as it should be. Let us be very clear about what we are talking about. The term “female 

- **Baroness Smith of Basildon** | 2014-12-11 | Female Genital Mutilation | relevant | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2014-12-11/debates/14121139000325/debate#contribution-14121139000042
  > I am not talking about prosecutions—I am talking about the FGM orders that are currently civil orders that the Government have placed within criminal law to keep all FGM legislation the same. It is a very different process from prosecuting afterwards. My second point is that we wanted these FGM orders to be based on the same principles as forced marriage orders, which have been significantly successful. One aspect on which I sought clarity from the Minister at Third Reading—I have also spoken privately to the Minister and have not yet got an answer—is whether legal aid would be made available for those seeking an FGM order as it currently is with forced marriage orders? The Minister was unclear on that in the House and although I have spoken to him since it seems that there is still a lack of clarity in the Government over whether these orders would attract legal aid. It seems impossible
