Family Court Reform and CAFCASS

I absolutely agree, and parental alienation is an issue I will come to later in my speech. Reform...

The hon. Lady is right to bring this debate forward and to highlight the disadvantages of legal a...

Absolutely. Proper legal representation needs to be available to everyone in the United Kingdom.<...

The interests of the child should be paramount—that was written into the Children Act 1989, many ...

Absolutely. The role of CAFCASS is to protect the child during family proceedings, but it seems t...

I cannot thank the hon. Member enough for securing the debate and I am only sorry that I cannot s...

The hon. Member speaks from her varied experience. Absolutely, I am more than happy to support he...

I stand here to give a general primal scream on behalf of what I will say are thousands of cases ...

It is always important to listen to the hon. Member. One of the things that the president of the ...

I absolutely agree. Sir James Munby, in his final year as head of the family division, seemed to ...

It is an extra special pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Ms Cummins. I ap...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. I thank the hon. Member for Coven...

Will the Minister give way?

I will make some progress. I point Members to the recent Ofsted inspection in January this year. ...

Before the Minister continues, could we go back to the issue of legal aid? Not everybody in famil...

As always, I will give very careful consideration to any request from the hon. Gentleman, and I w...

Would the Minister enter, or want anyone in his family to enter, into mediation with their rapist...

I will tread very carefully here. I grew up in a home with domestic violence, so I understand the...

I would like to start by acknowledging the point made by the Minister. I do not think that anybod...