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HANSARDCrime 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 BillI accept and understand that young children will be impacted by the potential behaviour of the parent, or indeed the lack of behaviour by the parent. The suggestion of the order…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe noble and learned Baroness, with all her experience, brings forward one potential output of a breach of an order, and I accept that that is a potential output. The point I am…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 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 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 BillThat is a valid point. I have considered with officials how we ensure enforcement of the guidance. I simply put it to the noble Earl—and we can debate this outside the Bill—that…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill27 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 Bill27 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsI am grateful for the recognition of my noble friend Lady Gale. I looked this up today, and she was asking me questions about this issue in this very week last year, so she is not…27 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsI assure the noble Baroness that it is not a slogan; it is a manifesto commitment to halve the level of violence against women and girls over a 10-year period as a matter of some…27 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsI find it quite upsetting to see some of the images and messages that are put out from people who, in some cases, currently face criminal charges in other countries. It is…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 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 2025