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HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Seventh sitting)This has been a heated but illuminating exchange—11 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Seventh sitting)Gentle for the Minister is sometimes brutalising for those on the receiving end. Is it not true that a lot of the Bill, in particular at this point, relies on regulations? That…11 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes an important point. She is right about the secrecy of family courts. In a subsequent urgent question that I was granted on…11 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)One benefit of this approach to legislation is that it allows scope for creativity in the individual court to tailor to a specific circumstance that might not be predictable. In…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I appreciate that. In our debates yesterday, during an exhaustive set of speeches about the independence of the role of the commissioner, the case was made that it is extremely…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I am very respectful of your chairmanship. I will move on and conclude my remarks. I have put on the record what I wanted to say, which was to explain delicately the parallels…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)Mr Bone, I would like to explain. We are talking about the establishment of a commissioner for abuse, reporting directly to the Home Secretary. The amendment seeks to change the…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I briefly make the point that you cannot have it both ways—or, rather, the Minister cannot have it both ways. You, Mr Bone, can obviously have it any way you like. The Minister…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)The decision that the officer has to make on whether he asks permission from an alleged victim or issues the notice without the support of the victim is going to be very…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)One of the most striking features of the clause is set out in subsection (2), which states: “A person arrested by virtue of subsection (1) must be held in custody”. These are…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)It is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone. I do not know about you, but I like to start every day with a quote from an inspirational political figure,…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I am keen for us not to fall into the bearpit that the Chair has already identified. We are not talking about the specific officeholder; we are talking about the role. We need to…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I welcome the hon. Lady’s intervention. As I said yesterday, I remember my first Bill Committee well. I assure every Member sitting on a Bill Committee for the first time that…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley made the point very well that, for some of the issues that we are tackling with the legislation, the powers already existed in…10 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 45, in clause 13, page 8, line 16, leave out from “must” to “on” and insert “report annually to Parliament”. This amendment changes the requirement for the…10 Jun 2020HANSARDBereavement after a Public DisasterThank you, Mr Speaker. Disaster victims, just like victims of crime, deserve to have their rights enshrined in law. Only last week, a murderer was released on parole without the…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister comes right to the heart of the matter, as she characteristically does. However, when she was having debates and discussions with officials and colleagues about how…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister disagrees and her dissent to my hon. Friend’s comment is on the record. Whether one agrees or disagrees with my hon. Friend, her point is that it is open to…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)I agree with what the hon. Lady says about that incident, because it is the one that is most recent, striking and relevant to the times in which we live. In order to ease the…09 Jun 2020HANSARDDomestic Abuse Bill (Fourth sitting)As the Chair said, I will speak to amendments 43 and 44, which relate to clauses 7 and 8. Right hon. and hon. Members will notice that both amendments achieve the same effect: to…09 Jun 2020