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HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Emily, could you say a little about the difficulty with elderly people disclosing the fact that they are victims of this sort of abuse, and how difficult that must be? This…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Ten women— Nazir Afzal: Ten women, every week, in England and Wales will kill themselves because of domestic abuse. That is Refuge’s figure.29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Have the Government made an estimate of the number of non-registered marriages? Nazir Afzal: I do not know. Again, the Minister will know better than I do. I have dealt with…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Was that figure of 200 for England and Wales? Nazir Afzal: Yes, but a lot of religious marriages are not registered. A lot more than 200 are not registered because they are…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you know what it is for 16-year-olds? The Minister will be able to get that. Nazir Afzal: I do not know. The Minister will probably know better than I do.29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you know what the estimates are? How many marriages are there? Nazir Afzal: There are roughly 200 marriages of 17-year-olds every year.29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q How many are there altogether, do you know? Nazir Afzal: Hundreds. That issue needs addressing. There is also the rural-urban thing—I have said this specifically about Wales,…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Say that again. Four? Nazir Afzal: There are four IDVAs in this country who are specially trained to work with BME victims. Given the population, that is not right.29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q In your evidence to us just a few minutes ago, you said that there were some issues with the Bill and that you would be happy to share them with the Committee. Could you please…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)That is very helpful.29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Sorry to interrupt; I am just trying to think. Was that 10% of crime that people have gone to? Zoe Billingham: Some 10% of all recorded crime that police deal with, and 40% of…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q An 88% rise? When is the base year for that? Zoe Billingham: In the three years from 2015 on, there has been an 88% increase. It represents 10% of all crime and 40% of all crime…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q No—I just threw that out there. I am just trying. I do not agree with that either, but I am frustrated by the lack of that sort of thing. Zoe Billingham: What we have promised…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Zoe, for coming along. Are there serial offenders among police forces in terms of variance? Are there forces that you go to that are not as good as they should be,…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)It is therefore very helpful that the Minister has helped to support your remarks that we are going to see that before clause 10.29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Second sitting)Q But what if the public wanted to know that? If you want to know how good a school’s exam results are, it is quite easy to find out—it is quite easy to compare schools. That is…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q That is fine. It is quite helpful. Just to say to you, Nicole, it is very helpful for us to see drafts before we discuss the clause, so we know what we are talking about, rather…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Welcome to the post. What should we say in the Bill about perpetrators? There is a lot about prevention orders and so on, but what should we say about that? Should we say…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)Q Is there anything more that we could do? We have the inspectorate later and could try to influence what they inspect, I guess. What you said is absolutely right and exactly what…29 Oct 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (First sitting)One of the real issues that has dogged us for years is the postcode lottery in dealing with domestic abuse and the different responses from agencies and police forces in different…29 Oct 2019