Owens asks for record to be corrected over ‘rape is legal’ claim

Following the debate on community payments, Labour MP Sarah Owen raised a point of order to call on justice under-secretary James Cartlidge to correct the record.

Owen bemoaned Cartlidge’s assertion that she had said that “rape is legal”, telling MPs that ‘it is clearly not the case”.

Deputy Speaker Dame Rosie Winterton offered the minister Cartlidge to correct the record but he was not forthcoming.