Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

I hope the Minister accepts that, although amendment 74 and other amendments would enlarge the evidential tests, they would still require a degree of evidence of to be given. That evidence may not come from such limited places as he wants, but it may be from GPs or women's refuges. Yet he is saying that he cannot accept such evidence, because it would be part of ““unfounded allegations””. Is he suggesting that those organisations collude in false allegations?