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HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportI thank my hon. Friend for that observation. If I may, I will write to him about that. He raises an important point. In terms of post-NRM support, the new victim care contract…27 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportI am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has helped the review with his expertise. I cannot recall the date off the top of my head, but we have been considering the…27 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportWe are not building the system around abuse. We are building the system around the fact that, as has already been mentioned, the largest cohort of referrals to the NRM are…27 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr Duncan Smith) for securing this important…27 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportCaseworkers are going through cases, and there are strands of applications coming in with very similar stories. I am limited as to what I can say on this occasion, but I will…27 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportThe hon. Gentleman has raised that point with me before; I take his point, and I am alert to it. The process will be complex, but that is not a reason for not doing it, so I am…27 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportThe difficulty I have is that, frankly, there are parts that I cannot publish for operational reasons. There is also emerging evidence of people being trafficked into this country…27 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillThe hon. Gentleman has jumped right to the end of my speech. However, I will respond now because I am conscious that it is such an excellent intervention. I will then return to…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI am not sure whether I am in a position to answer that. Of course, every company will have its own security arrangements. The hon. Gentleman will know that what we have inserted…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend. She has taken a keen interest in this matter both as a constituency MP and in her contributions to this place. She is absolutely right…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his words and for that meeting I had with him. He is absolutely right that we wanted to listen on this. As I said at the beginning,…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillYes, and I thank my hon. Friend, who has been particularly persistent about locking away bladed products or sharp knives. We absolutely keep that point under review. We have had a…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI will give way, but then I must make some progress.26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI am about to come to the framework for these orders, because I am conscious that in an ideal world we would have had the measure in the Bill when it was first laid before the…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillMy hon. Friend summarises the orders succinctly, and I thank him for all his work on the Bill. The point of the orders is to try to reach those children before they are in the…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI thank the hon. Lady again for all the work that she does through the Youth Violence Commission. She is absolutely right. As I said at the beginning of the debate, the Offensive…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillIf the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I must move on because I am conscious that others wish to speak. Let me return to KCPOs. I know that the shadow Minister has tabled some…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillYes. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the pilots. Some of the concerns raised today were also raised in the other place, so their lordships saw fit to insert an…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI think the hon. Lady is talking about the amendment tabled by the shadow Minister. We do not agree with that amendment. We believe that piloting and then the Secretary of State…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillTo correct the record, these orders have been discussed in the serious violence taskforce, which is attended by the Children’s Commissioner and many of the others that the hon.…26 Mar 2019