Speeches by Ribeiro-Addy.

“I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) for securing this important debate—as always, she is right. Like many hon. Members, I have been contacted by hundreds of constituents who are angry and anxious about the Government’s proposed cuts, which make no sense and will pus…”

“These are collaborative bids?”

“Ghadah, I want to ask you some questions about by-and-for services. First, why is it important to have these services as opposed to generic services?”

“Have any other panellists seen perpetrators of violence against women and girls accessing services? Can you tell me any more about some of the strategies employed by different organisations to help prevent violence against women and girls online?”

“I also want to ask you about the extent to which you might be seeing perpetrators of online violence against women and girls accessing services.”

“How difficult does the lack of data and the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of prevention work make it for you when looking for funding?”

“Is it difficult to measure because of a lack of data?”

“How are you evaluating the effectiveness of the prevention work?”

“Thank you all for being here today. Given the Government’s target to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, what impact do prevention services have over the longer term? I would like to put that question to Leyla.”

“What factors make them work quite well?”

“Can I ask about the challenges that the by-and-for services have in accessing the funding that they need?”

“Q10. Rents in my constituency are becoming exceedingly unaffordable. The most recent Office for National Statistics data estimates that the average rent has risen by 10% in the past year, while the average wage has not risen at the same rate. Several metro mayors are calling for the power to control rents in their regi…”

“I thank all Members present in this afternoon’s debate for their thoughtful and balanced contributions. It is not very often in the House that we are generally in agreement, so I am heartened to be joined by Members from different political backgrounds calling for us to improve the state of maternity care. I was gratef…”

“I did not say that the people in the NHS are racist; I said the NHS has a problem with institutional racism. I hope the hon. Member will accept that there are distinctions between those two things.”

“I am just challenging her point. Just because for one or two reasons she may not have seen any institutional racism in the NHS, that does not mean it does not exist. Further, the figures for black maternal mortality are the same in the United States, which has a completely different healthcare system from ours, but the…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention; he is absolutely right. I re-emphasise the point that black, Asian and minority ethnic women are more likely to suffer from common mental health disorders, yet are less likely to access treatment. According to MBRRACE-UK’s “Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care” report from …”

“My hon. Friend is absolutely right. These figures have been circulating for decades, but it was only after a successful parliamentary petition launched by Five X More that we first debated them in the House. We are now five or six years on and we are still in the same situation. Things have to change. I will continue t…”

“Does the hon. Lady accept that, given that she is not of an ethnic minority and has not looked at the information given by a number of women from ethnic minority backgrounds who have experienced this, she is not really in a position to say that what they say they experienced does not exist?”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered Black Maternal Health Week 2025. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. Before I get to the crux of this debate, I want to begin by saying that the UK is one of the safest countries in the world for a woman to give birth. I say that at the outset not to…”

“I just want to check whether the hon. Lady understands that structural racism is about not the number of people within an organisation, but the way the organisation is set up and treats different people. Does she understand that having a high proportion of ethnic minority people does not necessarily mean that an organi…”