Jess Phillips’s work in Parliament - West Midlands Labour

Jess Phillips MP in Parliament

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to set up a redress scheme to ensure that all eligible survivors of trafficking and slavery who were denied...

Allegations of Rape: Effective Investigations

Home Department

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

To follow up on what has just been said, rape prosecutions in England and Wales are at their lowest on record. One third of all the violent crime recorded by the police is domestic abuse-related,...

Coronavirus: Immunotherapy

Department of Health and Social Care

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the extent of the UK’s access to monoclonal antibody therapies as an alternative to covid-19 vaccines.

Coronavirus: Vaccination

Department of Health and Social Care

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to measure the value of covid-19 vaccine boosters for (a) people with blood cancer and (b) other...

Coronavirus: Vaccination

Department of Health and Social Care

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide funding for research into covid-19 vaccine efficacy among all types of blood cancer.

Clause 55 - Annual reports

Domestic Abuse Bill

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the Minister for running through the amendments in lieu. I am sure she will not be surprised to hear that the Labour party remains in agreement with the Lords amendments. I will also run...

Migrant Workers: Domestic Service

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will take steps to tackle serious exploitation and abuse of migrant domestic workers by restoring the visa that was in...

Clause 2 - Definition of “personally connected”

Domestic Abuse Bill

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

I admire the hon. Lady’s faith, but I would like something more than faith. The triumph of hope over experience will, I fear, leave us in the exact same position with the exact same...

Clause 2 - Definition of “personally connected”

Domestic Abuse Bill

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

It won’t be the last.

Clause 2 - Definition of “personally connected”

Domestic Abuse Bill

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

I can sympathise with what the Minister is saying, but I would ask the House and the Minister to sympathise with somebody on the frontline who has been watched again and again, through one...

Clause 2 - Definition of “personally connected”

Domestic Abuse Bill

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

If it already exists, why was Jason Smith allowed to go on and abuse 13 other people? It is not just Jason Smith, of course—it is the person who killed Hollie Gazzard, the person who killed...

Clause 2 - Definition of “personally connected”

Domestic Abuse Bill

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

Like the Minister, I wish to place on record my own and my party’s sadness on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen. I suppose all your life you get used to the existence of the royal family as...

Gender Based Violence

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the thematic review led by Her Majesty's inspectorate into policing responses to violence against women and girls was first...

Domestic Abuse: Homicide

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people killed in a domestic homicide were over 50 years of age in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.

Domestic Abuse

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish the outcomes framework it is working towards in assessing the (a) quality and (b) outcome of current domestic...

Domestic Abuse: Homicide

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people killed in a domestic homicide had no recourse to public funds in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.

Offences against Children: Sentencing

Ministry of Justice

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in the last full reporting year what the average sentence was for people convicted of a contact child sex offence.

Sex and Relationship Education

Department for Education

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the teaching of relationships and sex education on (a) contraception, (b) fertility and (c) abortion is based...

Sex and Relationship Education: Gender

Department for Education

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to prevent misogynistic and homophobic relationships and sex education (RSE) resources from being used in schools as RSE is...

Sex and Relationship Education: Gender

Department for Education

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the appropriateness of the language in RSE teaching resources in terms of references to gender roles.