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Serious Crime Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 28 October 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Serious Crime Bill [HL].

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness. She need not apologise for having been on her feet for a long time, as she did as much as she could to address the many issues which were raised in the debate.

On the issue of FGM protection orders, I think there is not a cigarette paper between us on what we are trying to achieve. However, I still do not fully understand—I am not a lawyer, but even the noble Lord, Lord Lester, could not help me out on this one—why the Government have chosen this approach and not the family law approach. That is the other point. I will look again in Hansard to see what she said, but given the comments that have been made around the House, I thought there was a willingness from the noble Baroness and from others for the Government to talk to us and say, “Have we got it right? Can we look at this?”.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
756 cc1099-1100 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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