Speeches by Phillips.

“Again, it does, only on the basis of the age of the victim of this crime. However, I go back to my original point about the hashing. I see no reason why, for adult sexual abuse images or intimate image abuse, hashing technology could not be used. I would very much encourage the family in the terrible case of Murray to …”

“Today.”

“Crack on, once again—I would like to go back to my previous comment that they could, absolutely, crack on today. Wouldn’t that be lovely?”

“Tell you what: I expect to see it change—”

“All I would say back to them is that it is illegal. Intimate image abuse is illegal, so I would push back to them. We might not morally have got to the point where we find it as repugnant as child abuse—although I have to say that sometimes I sit here and people make out that everything is absolutely rosy with regard t…”

“The threat—we didn’t even need to do it. The more we talk about this, the better. This is really important. Making tech companies be better and do better and carve out things for us, whether they are in California or Moscow, comes from even the threat from a Committee like yourselves. It is really important that we kee…”

“An example of where this has been successful was on some of the nudification apps. They had already stopped UK users being able to use them. They had blocked UK users because of UK law.”

“We will achieve nothing in the criminal justice system unless we do what you have just outlined. Incidents of police-perpetrated abuse and misogyny—a number of cases have come to light in public—are undoubtedly shocking, so we have to do everything possible. We are obviously in the middle of a two-part inquiry—the Angi…”

“For decades, we have sought to do very little other than basically tidy up a mess of crimes already perpetrated, but preventing them has become one of the major pillars of the work that this Government will seek to do. About eight Committees of the House of Commons, including a forebear of this Committee, which I sat o…”

“It’s far too violent a drop in every single area where it happens, whether it is in care work or housing. There are so many areas in society where the cliff edge is 18, and 16 in the case of some offences that we deal with. It is complex. The law has to draw a line somewhere. I suppose it is from the point of view of p…”

“First and foremost, I just want to say what amazing work they do. They have helped me personally to have some of the images of me taken down, so I feel completely and utterly indebted to them—although that will not form part of my decision making; I just declare that interest. The Budget-setting process that has just g…”

“I would like to say very clearly from the Dispatch Box that it is a total myth that people cannot access mental health support when awaiting trial. It is something that has crept in over the years, and I would like it to be stamped out for good across all agencies. I ran a rape crisis service that definitely served peo…”

“I have spoken to the Chief Constable of the PSNI within the last week, and he has requested that we go over to Northern Ireland. That trip is planned for early in the new year, and I would very much welcome working with colleagues in this House and the devolved Government to make sure that we are all working together o…”

“I could not agree more with the hon. Gentleman, and I remember his valiant efforts during the passage of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. The Government have committed to ensuring that local connection does not apply in cases such as those he talks about. With regard to benefits, the Department for Work and Pensions is ver…”

“The Government are absolutely committed to tackling misogyny, both before it starts and when it exists. Hate crime reviews are being undertaken, and I am more than happy to meet the hon. Lady. I have met her many times to discuss this subject.”

“The simple answer is yes, I do agree. As somebody who has written and delivered such programmes in schools, I know that brilliant work is going on across the country in local authorities, multi-academy trusts and more widely, with voluntary sector organisations doing a lot of the work. I would be glad to explore with o…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for question. The first march was in 1977 and, frankly, progress has been too slow if we still need to march. We will use a cross-Government, transformative approach to halve violence against women and girls, and that will be underpinned by a new violence against women and girls strategy, to be p…”

“It is indeed totally unacceptable, and it is, I am afraid, a legacy of a totally failed justice system. We know that owing to the complexity of the system, rape victims are often left to wait disproportionately longer than others who are already waiting too long. In our manifesto we committed ourselves to fast-tracking…”

“Having done that work myself, I am more than happy to champion and praise the work of IDVAs and ISVAs. As my hon. Friend might imagine, we will use every tool available to us, including those vital roles, to target perpetrators and address the root causes of abuse and violence.”

“This Government are committed to using all the levers at our disposal to deliver our mission to halve violence against women and girls. We have already announced our intention to embed specialist domestic abuse advisers in 999 control rooms, launched pilots for the new domestic abuse protection orders, and implemented …”