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HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I fear that this is one area where I may not be able to bring the hon. Member for Rotherham with me. I will try but I suspect I may be out of luck on this one. I am grateful to…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Ninth sitting)I will try to answer quickly, before we get cut off by the end of the sitting. I take the hon. Lady’s point. Recently I attended a Select Committee sitting in which we looked at…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I will respond briefly to new clause 8, tabled by the hon. Member for Rotherham, which seeks to require an assessment of the Secretary of State and that that assessment is…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I take her point, but I add the nuance that it is not a case of new money being allocated. It is an assessment of the consequences of a legal entitlement that would exist in those…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I shall be relatively brisk. As with the Government amendments moved earlier, these are minor, technical amendments. They relate to the provisions on data protection. We are…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Ninth sitting)I will see whether I can get that data. On the hon. Lady’s point about the figure of 19%, she is right to highlight the horrifying prevalence of that crime, which often goes…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 12 introduces a joint statutory duty on police and crime commissioners, integrated care boards and local authorities to collaborate on relevant victim support services. As…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Members for Cardiff North, and for Rotherham, for their amendments, which seek to expand the duty to collaborate so that under that duty, support…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Ninth sitting)The hon. Lady did not quite succeed in dissuading me from what I was about to say, which is that although I am unable to accept the hon. Member for Rotherham’s JSNA amendment at…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Ninth sitting)It is good to see the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley, in her seat. I hope she is feeling a bit better, although I am pleased that neither her eloquence…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Ninth sitting)I slightly differ from the hon. Lady’s perspective; I do not believe that it is necessary to have that provision in the Bill. There are other mechanisms, be they through statutory…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Ninth sitting)I was going to make the point that, sitting alongside local accountability and local tailoring, we also have—as the hon. Lady will know, and for want of a better term—a national…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I commend the clause to the Committee. Question put and agreed to. Clause 12, as amended, accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 13 Strategy for collaboration in…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)We may be spending a lot of time together.04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister, particularly for her comments on data. I may not quite be Mystic Meg, but I sense some possible future amendments or at least a debate on…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I am always happy to consider the suggestions put forward by the hon. Lady.04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for her amendments and for her exposition of them. I agree with her on the importance of local areas reflecting the views and expertise of…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I reassure the hon. Lady that I will turn to that. I have a little more to say, though not too much. To ensure that the victims funding strategy is improving commissioning…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful, as ever, to the hon. Member for Rotherham for her amendment, which would require the relevant authorities in a police area in England to assess the needs of victims…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I will be brief. These amendments are part of a collection of minor and technical amendments that have been tabled across the Bill to ensure that consistent terminology is used in…04 Jul 2023