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HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q So if you are a student in this country and you came over here from, let’s say, Venezuela, and you were abused by your partner, you currently would not be able to access a…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q On the women you work with at LAWRS, as well as in the Step Up Migrant Women coalition—let us leave the people who are on a spousal visa to one side—what sorts of visas do the…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Specifically on domestic violence and destitution—it used to be called something else, and I still want to call it that—you can get destitution funding only if you are on a…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Thanks for coming. I was going to ask you to explain what the Step Up Migrant Women coalition is, but you have done that. It is lots of different organisations. The Step Up…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q I just want to pick up on that issue of the postcode lottery, which is potentially not harmed in the Bill but is not catered for in the Bill. In a situation where a child is a…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Hello, Nicole, and welcome to our slightly weird distanced Committee. Some of my other colleagues will talk to you specifically about the role, the role of the Bill in creating…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)You will be flat on the floor, if the Government have anything to do with it.04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Me neither.04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q It will take time. Let us stick with the idea of perpetrators, not necessarily of domestic abuse but of other crimes, whose criminality could be linked to their victimisation…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q So you think there needs to be a review process, and you welcome that it is a pilot. Dame Vera Baird: I do, and I definitely want it to be piloted. They have to reconcile that…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)I have other skills. Dame Vera Baird: Years ago, there was a conditional caution for women. The condition on the caution was to go to have your needs assessed at a women’s centre.…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Well, you are a better one than me. Dame Vera Baird: You have advantages I don’t have.04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Thank you for sharing your story with us.04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Have you ever dealt with the national referral mechanism? Andrea Simon: I have, in a previous role, yes.04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q There has been a huge amount of talk about commissioners in here today—it’s been commissioner, commissioner, commissioner—so it is good to have another one in front of us. As…04 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Have you seen any cases where victims of domestic violence have come forward and ended up in immigration detention? Giselle Valle: Yes. We have a report with King’s College…04 Jun 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillI want to thank everybody who has spoken in this debate. In a rare moment, I agreed with almost all of it. I think I will have a chat with the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip…28 Apr 2020HANSARD Local Government Responsibilities: Public ServicesI thank the Minister. This morning, in a conference call with the leader of Birmingham City Council, the biggest council in Europe, we discussed this exact thing. Currently in…18 Mar 2020HANSARDStatutory Sick Pay and Protection for WorkersDoes my hon. Friend agree that for lots of the people he is talking about—the Chancellor repeatedly talked yesterday about those who are self-employed, for example, being able to…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Educational SettingsWith regards to the voucher system that the Secretary of State pointed out, we are about to see an explosion in the number of people who are eligible for free school meals because…18 Mar 2020