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HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)Absolutely. For us, for the commissioner, given her own evidence, and for the sector—for everybody —independence is the single most important thing we wish to see in this role.…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)Okay. I just want to ensure that there is an independent process so that if there are problems, they can be solved. I close my remarks on that point. The commissioner is a welcome…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)I can think of very few areas in which that will come up as a matter of dissent, so it appears that it can be only a fear of something that might make the Home Office look bad…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister is incredibly reassuring on the point. With regard to the case she is talking about, I do not wish to gather any details. I have handled cases about misdemeanours of…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Lots of my questions have been answered. I used to work for the same organisation, so I know that Lucy works with organisations that work with victims of modern slavery. Andrea,…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q In the follow-up to the Joint Committee on the previous Bill in a previous Parliament—it looks pretty similar to this Bill in this Parliament, so we will assume it is the one…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q On the gaps that you alluded to with regard to migrant women, migrant victims and migrant children, and to British children who are the children of migrant victims, you said…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q I wanted to clarify that the women—I am assuming they were largely women—who you talk about that came to you, and the people I am talking about, are here in this country…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Absolutely. I want to finish by talking about the gap you identified around perpetrator services. The Bill has wide-ranging changes with regard to domestic violence protection…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Would it be pointless to have a Bill that makes ways for domestic abuse protection orders to exist if, in your local area, there is not a service that would be accredited, by…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Hello, Pragna. Thank you for coming in today in these slightly strange circumstances. For a number of years, this Bill has been getting to the point where we are sitting here…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Could you briefly, in one line, set out what exactly you—not just you, but organisations like yours and lots of more generic organisations—have been asking to be put in the…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q So after all those hours of work and, I believe, two reviews—please correct me if I am wrong—on migrant women, with one completed and one not completed, do you see any of your…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Just so that people can hear this, if a victim comes forward who is working in, let us say, a hospital and has no recourse to public funds, would she be able to easily access a…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Have you ever met any women in that circumstance who have children—let us discount single victims at this point—and who have been told that they would have their children…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q This is my final question. If it was written into the Bill that victims of domestic abuse who have no recourse to public funds, regardless of their status, were able to access…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)To go home to Brazil? Gilmara Garcia: The headteacher at that school provided me with the fare to get to London. I went straightaway to London Bridge to the Home Office they have…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Sleeping rough?04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q We only have a short space of time, and we need to make sure that those of us who have to scrutinise the Bill get the message about what needs to change in it. So you had to…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)It is called a reflection period. Andrea Simon: Yes, but it is not the specialist wrap-around support that is run by and for black and minority ethnic and migrant women. That is…04 Jun 2020