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HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)When the Minister stands up, I am sure that she will urge us all to take part in the consultation on the current review and say that very thing. My hon. Friend is absolutely…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I agree, and I will move on to concerns about people working in the same building. It is a very real issue; a quarter of people meet their partner at work—I met my husband in…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I welcome the Minister’s comments. I am happy about the announcement of a Government review, although a number of reviews about workplace violence against women and girls are…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I will be brief. I have a number of concerns about the notice, some of which have, quite rightly, already been raised. Louisa Rolfe is currently a West Midlands police officer—she…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)I was just discussing the issue of a notice being breached on behalf of the victim. I had started to say that in the case of Caroline Flack, who sadly took her own life, there was…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)I feel that, now Minister Chalk is on his feet, I should have some things to say; I do not want to leave him out. I cannot say how important the idea that the court can put in…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause is very robust and replaces an incredibly confusing picture of which orders one can get where. As somebody who has filled in the paperwork for pretty much all of these…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)I wonder whether the Government foresee a child being included in that instance. If it was an elderly relative, that is reasonable. But are we saying here—or perhaps it will be in…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)Specifically with regard to what we were discussing earlier in relation to workplaces, does the Minister foresee that that could be one of those issues that could be discussed in…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)It is very pleasing to hear that—it is reassuring. I urge that the point is made explicitly in the guidance that will go along with all the orders. I wanted that on the public…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 51, in clause 33, page 21, line 3, leave out subsection (2) and insert— “(2) A domestic abuse protection order that imposes a requirement to do something…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)The amendment is not dissimilar to new clause 26, so I shall speak to them together, before moving on to new clause 27. This part of the Bill is specifically about further…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)It will be a very thin silver lining to what has been an enormous cloud over our country. The Minister is absolutely right: we have been learning some things in this period.…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)I recognise what the Minister says about the fact that perpetrator programmes are used elsewhere. Very often in children’s services, I have seen people sent on perpetrator…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)I apologise if I did not cover all the boroughs in London. I did not come up with the amendments all by myself; the specialist sector is working with us to ask for these things,…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)I welcome what the Minister says. I suppose the reality is that if that does not happen, I have no recourse beyond changing this Bill. Actually, I can just stand in this building…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I absolutely echo the Minister’s words about Nicole Jacobs—and, I am sure, anyone who had been given the position. May I ask if that same process was followed in the appointment…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)I am not sure whether this is just by virtue of Birmingham being relatively near Wales, but in refuge accommodation services the connection between women moving across borders…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)I wonder about specific issues that this Bill—perhaps not yet, but potentially—covers, such as welfare and immigration. We heard from the commissioner herself that an onus was put…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 50, in clause 1, page 2, line 7, at end insert— “(5A) For the purposes of this Act, people affected by domestic abuse may include any child (such as a…09 Jun 2020