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HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Rotherham for amendments 56 and 57 and grateful to her and the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley, for this debate. The…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 (Ninth sitting)I also met Rob Behrens, the ombudsman, and I pay tribute to him and his team for their work. I am pleased by the broad consensus in the Committee. I note what the shadow Minister…04 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)As I say, our experience is that the Victims’ Commissioner—I suspect that this is by virtue both of the office itself and the strength of personality of all three Victims’…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)I suspected that might be the case. The requirement to share compliance information and to report to the Secretary of State on the joint review of this information will enable a…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to hon. Members for their contributions. I will respond on amendments 47 and 13 in turn, and will then touch on new clause 2. I am grateful to the hon. Member for…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady. As I say, I am looking at how we might do this, so I am not in a position to make firm commitments to her, other than that I will bear what she…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)I will give way first to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley.29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)Amendments 27 and 28 are minor technical amendments that have been tabled to better meet our intention to prevent the victims code from interfering with independent prosecutorial…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 5 makes it clear that failure to comply with the victims code does not in itself give rise to liability in criminal or civil proceedings, but it also makes it clear that…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister. I will come on to how this will work in practice, but I suspect hon. Members may wish to return to it in their contributions to their…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for enunciating the rationale for amendment 14. I shall first address her amendment and then move on to clause 10. I agree that access to…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Rotherham for tabling the new clauses, and I hope that she will allow me to address them all together. Although they each address different…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Lady slightly pre-empts my answer. If that information is centrally held, I will endeavour to get it and write to her with it. I am also pleased that the College of…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)Without testing the patience of the Committee, I have a few more points I intend to make before concluding. I hope that some of what I say may well reassure the hon. Lady. If it…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eighth sitting)My understanding is that they will, but will the right hon. Lady allow me to confirm that? If at any point I have inadvertently misled the Committee, I will make a correction in…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Seventh sitting)Amendment 64 would require the victims code to state that victims must be informed of their rights to access special measures in the family court. We agree that all participants…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Seventh sitting)Because of the nature of the parliamentary Session and the carry-over, we will have a period between this Bill’s leaving Committee and its returning to the Floor of the House on…29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Seventh sitting)indicated assent.29 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Seventh sitting)The hon. Lady brings to the House and this Committee a huge amount of experience from having worked in this sector and seen changes to it, and an interest that she has maintained…29 Jun 2023