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HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I will also speak to further amendments later. I just want to say thank you to the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, for his kind words before he goes. My reputation is…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful to all those who have spoken in what I think everybody in the Committee will accept is a very wide set of amendments, covering a large number of issues. I shall try…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI appreciate my noble friend’s comments. If she will bear with me, I will come on to that point in a moment. I am doing this in a structured order to try to address the points…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am very happy to arrange a meeting with an appropriate Minister. I would be very happy to sit in on it. Other Ministers may wish to take the lead on this, because there are…27 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsThe work to halve violence against women and girls in a decade started the day the Government entered office, and I pay tribute to my colleague Jess Phillips for her work in this…27 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsI am grateful to my noble friend. We have made progress on all three of those objectives. The Department for Education and my noble friend Lady Smith of Malvern have published an…27 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsI am grateful to the noble Baroness for those comments. As I have mentioned in answer to earlier questions, the Department for Education has now issued curriculum reviews on the…27 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsThat is extremely important, and there is the potential for the Government to examine how that is undertaken. Harassment and misogyny, the issues that my noble friend has…27 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsThe noble Baroness makes a valuable point. It is important that we have police officers who understand the impact of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, since, as…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful to my noble friend for further pressing me on the issue. I have tried to explain to the Committee where the Government are on this. We always reflect on debates in…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI will sound like I am repeating myself from Question Time, but, very shortly, we anticipate bringing forward a policing White Paper looking at a whole range of mechanisms to…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful for the further pressure on this issue from the Cross Benches. My job is to set out to the Committee the Government’s view on these amendments, which I am trying to…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMany AI chatbots that enable users to share content with each other or search live websites for information are within the scope of the Online Safety Act’s duties. Providers of…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe noble Lord has made his case. I have put my view. If he wishes to examine it further, we can do so in due course. I understand that he wants to bring people to justice. So do…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025