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HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I absolutely agree. Throughout the day, no doubt, we will be told, as we were on Second Reading, and as we will be on Report, that, even though I am a sometime opponent of some…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)rose—09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I will remain within the terms by saying that we, as members of the Committee, received evidence yesterday from the Children’s Commissioner. She is encouraging us to look at this…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I am not. Often, the two issues that the children’s sector mainly campaigns for in this regard become conflated. One is the issue of teenage relationship abuse and the age limit…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)On that point, this is the first time for lots of us, doing a lot of things. We are all learning: I will inevitably get some of the procedure wrong— I almost always do. I have…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I absolutely agree. If we are going to write a ground-breaking Bill, let us make it break ground. If we do not genuinely think, as a Committee and as a House, that it is worth…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I speak as a local politician in Birmingham. If we would like a tally of who can slag off Birmingham City Council more, I would definitely win. The hon. Lady is talking about the…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I just wonder—this might be a massive ask—if the Committee could see that guidance, or have sight of at least that section about what we are going to discuss throughout the Bill.09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I thank the Minister. I think that, in the words of Belinda Carlisle, everybody on the Committee dreams the same dreams and wants the same things— [ Interruption. ] Belinda…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 48, in clause 2, page 2, line 21, at end insert— “(ee) one person is a provider of care to the other;”.09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)We are now moving on from the definition to talk about exactly who we mean by “connected parties”. The amendment is a response to calls from people with disabilities and…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)I absolutely agree; there needs to be a consistent thread. I suppose the Government would lean on the idea of Ofsted’s safeguarding principles with regard to all schools,…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the Minister for her thoughtful response. I appreciate what she said about the Care Quality Commission and its coverage, but it would have had absolutely no jurisdiction…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)On people who live together, we must not assume that we are talking only about young, trendy people in Brighton who live together in a house share. In my constituency, there are…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)I am not sure whether my hon. Friend was going to come on to this, but exactly the same thing happened when the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission was selected.…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)I note that we are having a wide-ranging debate, and jumping from one clause to another, and I will take some advantage of the fact that the clause is about the general functions…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Third sitting)The reality is that for lots of people a connected party to their wellbeing, their life, or what people would call their family, is a bit like in working class communities,…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)These clauses all relate to the powers of the domestic abuse commissioner; there is a huge area of the Bill about her powers and how this role is going to work. As my hon. Friend…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)Absolutely. I am not asking for a bottomless pot of funding for the commissioner for ever and ever. I am sure that, even if the Minister were to ask really nicely, the Treasury…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)Absolutely, because, in Wales, it is a violence against women and girls situation. The Minister will remember—it might not be as far back as the Investigatory Powers Bill, but it…09 Jun 2020