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HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I appreciate the hon. Lady’s point. I will just round off my point, then address her point specifically. Right 1 of the code is clear that victims who, for example, have…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the work that he and the all-party parliamentary group that he chairs do on this important issue. I am grateful to him for giving us an…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Rotherham for tabling the amendment and airing this issue. The amendment seeks to ensure that victims are given “information from all state…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the right hon. Lady, but there is a slight difference between her two points. That survey refers to the number of victims who were not aware of the code; that…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)Notwithstanding any legislative reason or primary legislation that might limit our scope, I am quite happy to look at it in the context of the code. We have published a pre-draft…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for the amendment, which she has clarified is a probing amendment; she is seeking clarity from the Box, as it were, that someone can come within the…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I hope that the hon. Lady will forgive me if I resist the temptation to stray into areas that are properly judicial—related to judicial independence and, indeed, training and the…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)As the hon. Lady set out, amendment 46 would include persons who have suffered harm as a direct result of being a child of a person who poses a sexual risk to children, for…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)Amendment 63 seeks to add wording to the definition of a victim to explicitly state that it includes children. I reassure the hon. Lady that children who are “a victim of, or a…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)Amendment 49 would amend the first principle of the victims code, which says that victims should be provided with information to help them to understand the criminal justice…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady. She may well push me in a slightly different direction, but I am always a little cautious of seeking to read across a precedent in one piece of…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)When I conclude in a moment, I hope that I might have given the hon. Lady a little more reassurance. In respect of her specific point, the Government have previously explored the…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I will finish my sentence, then of course I will. The code is absolutely clear in right 1 that all providers are expected to consider any relevant personal characteristics that…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I turn first to amendment 38, which seeks to include victim compensation as an additional victims code principle, and I am grateful to the hon. Member for Rotherham for her…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)I mentioned operational partners, and in this context, that refers to partners in the criminal justice system, such as the prosecution authorities, the police and others. I take…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)The technical difference, or the difference as we see it, is that in the case of the Justice Committee’s PLS recommendation the individual was born as a direct consequence of a…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady and I will address that point in my remaining remarks—I will give way again if she feels that I have not done so. In terms of those who suffer from…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fifth sitting)I fear the shadow Minister misunderstood what I was saying; I was referring to police and CPS lawyers, who will be able to find ways to prosecute some of these cases, I would…27 Jun 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fifth sitting)I am afraid I disagree with the shadow Minister’s last point. I do not think the amendment would address the operational or on-the-ground implementation issues that she…27 Jun 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady will appreciate that I am unable to comment on the specifics of a case, and it would probably be inappropriate to do so in the Chamber, but if she would like to…27 Jun 2023