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HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I laid this amendment in Committee because I was genuinely shocked that a refuge address could ever be revealed to a perpetrator. Victims are not moving to refuges…10 Mar 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillI thank noble Lords for their valuable contributions to this short but very important debate. I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for her support and for putting her…10 Mar 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, given the hour I will be very brief. I thank the Government and my noble friend the Minister for listening and laying their own amendments to close the loophole I raised…10 Mar 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 44. I thank my noble friend Lady Helic and Claire Waxman, the Victims’ Commissioner for London, and her team for bringing the issue of…08 Mar 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, before I speak to the amendment in my name, as we enter the final day of Committee I want to thank everyone who has been involved in this marathon. By tabling more than…10 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 161 and thank the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for tabling it and for being so tenacious. It is an honour to speak after the right reverend Prelate the…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, in this important debate; he speaks movingly and powerfully on this issue. I support Amendment 157, for which the…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, as a member of the Joint Committee that undertook pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft domestic abuse Bill, I know that the extraterritorial jurisdiction provisions of…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillI thank the noble Lords, Lord Kennedy and Lord Paddick, for their very thoughtful remarks, and for their support on this amendment. It is a very small gap, but I think it worth…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, absolutely it is late in the day, and so many other noble Lords have made brilliant speeches to which I cannot add a great deal. I wholeheartedly support Amendment 162…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 131 in my name, to which the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, has added his name, I will leave the other amendments in this grouping in the capable hands…03 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill03 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillIt is a huge honour to try and sum up such a rich and important debate. I made many notes, a lot of which I cannot read, so I will try to keep my remarks very brief. I thank noble…03 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I give my strong support to Amendment 137. I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, for her determination and commitment on this issue and thank the Centre for…03 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, it may be late in the evening but the passion and energy in the speeches we have heard have not dipped at all. I will speak in support of Amendment 176 and join others…01 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Burt, on her speech. She set out the case for the amendments very eloquently. I will speak to Amendments 51 and 54 to which my…27 Jan 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, it is never easy to make a truly original point at the end of such a full and interesting debate as the one on this group, so I will keep my remarks as brief as…25 Jan 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillI once asked an experienced police officer with over 20 years of service on the front line: if he could eradicate one crime, what would it be? Without hesitation he replied…05 Jan 2021HANSARDChildren in Care: Unregulated AccommodationMy Lords, only 12% of care leavers end up going to university compared with 42% of their peers. What are the Government doing to improve this situation?17 Nov 2020