MP Layla Moran speaks out on banning NDA's in wake of Russell Brand conviction

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BBC Question Time heard how Layla Moran, from the Liberal Democrats, hopes that the government will ban non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) sooner than September

A Liberal Democrat MP has raised her concerns about non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and said she hopes they will be banned sooner than September.

It comes after disgraced comedian Russell Brand was convicted and sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for one count of rape and three sexual assaults on four different women.

On BBC Question Time last night the first topic of discussion focused on protecting women from men in power. After comedian and podcaster Deborah Frances-White shared her horror experience with a man at a showbiz Christmas Party the panel discussed how women and girls can be better protected against men in power.

Fiona Bruce presented an hour of debate from Exeter, with politicians, commentators and members of the public. On the panel: from the government, the defence minister Luke Pollard; the Conservatives’ shadow AI minister Ben Spencer; Layla Moran from the Liberal Democrats, Matt Goodwin from Reform UK, and comedian and podcaster Deborah Frances-White.

After hearing Deborah Frances-White. speak out about her shock encounter with a "high profile man" at a showbiz Christmas party Lib Dem Layla Moran touched upon non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).

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Addressing the wider issue of protecting women from powerful men in the entertainment industry Moran said : "I would love to tell you that it is just this industry but we know full well it isn't."

She added: "At the moment it is still possible to have non-disclosure agreements that are silencing these victims, these are still possible to do. The government has agreed to ban them. It's not enforced yet but I hope that they will do it sooner than later - they say September, I think they can go earlier."

She concluded: "We cannot have people being paid off, women's silence, should not and…

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