Domestic Abuse Bill

I thank my noble friend Lady Meyer for her moving and courageous contribution based on her person...

My Lords, I think we may have the noble Baroness, Lady Watkins, back again. Perhaps she would lik...

Taking this into consideration, it is clear that these amendments are designed to ensure that, if...

My Lords, I take a moment to praise the powerful speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Helic, with w...

My Lords, I begin with an apology: I was unable to take part at Second Reading of this important ...

I am pleased to follow my noble friend Lord Cormack, and I agree with him, but my overriding conc...

My Lords, I, too, wish to commend the Minister on bringing this solid piece of legislation before...

My Lords, I support the Bill. The mental and physical damage of domestic abuse goes far beyond th...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 2 and 4 on parental alienation. As the former Victims’ Commission...

My Lords, I am sympathetic to the amendments, with some caveats. I am grateful to the noble Baron...

My Lords, I want to speak in support of Amendments 2 and 4 tabled by my noble friend Lady Meyer. ...

My Lords, before I had the pleasure of meeting my noble friend Lady Meyer, I had read about the u...

My Lords, this is such a difficult issue. This afternoon we have heard strong and cogent argument...

My Lords, this is a solid piece of legislation and I hope that the process on which we are embark...

My Lords, first, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lady Meyer, who is right to highlight the prote...

I have received a request to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord McConnell of Glen...

My Lords, I am very grateful for this opportunity to speak after the Minister. I did not submit m...

I agree with the noble Lord’s very balanced view. It is absolutely right that we do not undermine...

My Lords, I have made so many notes that I do not know where to start. I thank all those who spok...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 3. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...

Moved by

Baroness Altmann

3: Clause 1, page 2, line 1, at end insert—

“(f) unre...

My Lords, I shall speak also to my other amendments in this group—Amendments 5, 168, 169 and 170,...

My Lords, like the other stories lying behind the need for this Bill, this set of amendments reve...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 3, 5, 168, 169 and 170. I congratulate my noble friend Lady ...

My Lords, I shall speak in support of Amendments 3, 5, 168, 169 and 170. I pay tribute to the nob...

My Lords, I first declare my interests as noted on the register; I think the relevant ones would ...

My Lords, I rise with some trepidation—and, I hope, an appropriate degree of sensitivity—to make ...

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests as noted in the register. We very much want the Bill t...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken to these amendments, particularly my noble frie...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this brief debate, and I appreciate the exce...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 6. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...

Moved by

Baroness Butler-Sloss

6: Clause 2, page 2, line 27, at end insert “or if one...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 6, 8, 9 and 14, in my name, and support Amendment 10, in the...

My Lords, I am speaking to Amendment 7, which would ensure that a carer of a person with disabili...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, on the way she introd...

My Lords, Amendment 13, in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Paddick, does not seek to bro...

My Lords, Amendment 10 is in my name and is supported by the noble and learned Baroness, Lady But...

My Lords, I support Amendments 7, 12 and 13 in this group, but today I am speaking to moving Amen...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surbiton, and her...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, and to contribute for the fi...

My Lords, I wish to speak in support of Amendments 10 and 14 tabled by the noble and learned Baro...

My Lords, I speak briefly on Amendments 6 and 7, which I support. Unfortunately, I was cut off fr...

My Lords, I suspect most members of the public think of the typical case of domestic abuse as bei...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames. I find mysel...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bourne. I find myself on t...

My Lords, I am delighted to be able to follow the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, for whom I have virt...

My Lords, we are having some difficulty connecting to the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, so the next sp...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to take part in this debate. In her opening comments the noble ...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness, but she is now referring to our debate on the previou...

Okay. I finish by saying that I am grateful for this consideration and hope that it may be extend...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 11, to which I have added my name. It is in the name of my...

My Lords, given the length of the debate and the time, I have junked most of what I intended to s...

My Lords, it is never easy to make a truly original point at the end of such a full and interesti...

My Lords, I think the general test for this group of amendments is whether the perpetrator of abu...

My Lords, this is the first opportunity I have had to speak on this Bill, so I hope that noble Lo...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee.<...

My Lords, the Minister has given quite a long reply, which will bear reading. However, it sounded...

The noble Baroness is right: it was a lengthy response, which I hope set out why the wide range o...

Finally, I call the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, to respond to the debate on he...

I thank everybody who has played a part in this quite long debate. I have learned a great deal fr...

I would be very happy, in deferring to the great experience of the noble and learned Baroness, La...

We come now to the group beginning with Amendment 15. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Baroness Stroud

15: Clause 3, page 3, line 9, at end insert “, including bab...

My Lords, it is a privilege to move Amendment 15 and to speak to Amendments 20, 172 and 179 in my...

Following the informative speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, on these amendments I will b...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, for her introduction to the amendment and reaf...

After our next speaker, the noble Lord, Lord Shinkwin, I will be calling the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Armstrong of Hill Top. I am delight...

My Lords, the Domestic Abuse Bill offers an opportunity to deliver substantial improvements to th...

I call the next speaker, Lord Cormack. Ah, we have lost Lord Cormack, but we will try to bring hi...

My Lords, I am rather surprised to see that I am down to speak on Amendment 15. As far as I was a...

My Lords, we have had many speakers on this amendment from my noble friend Lady Stroud, whom I su...

After our next speaker, the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool, I will be calling the noble Baro...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, for raising this crucial issue. There are four...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow my noble friend Lord Alton of Liverpool. In speaking in suppo...

My Lords, I am very glad to support the amendments in the names of my noble friend Lady Stroud, t...

My Lords, I acknowledge all the points that noble Lords have made on this group, and I totally ag...

Amendment 15 would add an unborn child, from conception onwards, to the definition of a child und...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, and particularly my noble frien...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who contributed to debating the amendment, particularly the nob...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 16. I remind noble Lords that anyone ...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

16: Clause 4, page 3, line 18, leave out “appoint” and inser...

My Lords, with this group, which comprises Amendments 16 to 19, we turn to the role of the domest...

My Lords, I am unclear as to the precise status of the commissioner. I have one key question: is ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Hamwee and Lady Burt, for a series of ...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 16, 17, 18 and 19, which are of particular interest to me as the ...

My Lords, I wish to speak in support of the spirit of these amendments and the arguments so clear...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lady Hamwee has outlined, the aim of this group of amendments is to ...

Amendment 16 would ensure that the domestic abuse commissioner is appointed full-time. Amendment ...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for setting out her reasons for tabling these amendments...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have weighed in on this subject. Committee stage is the opportu...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 21. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

21: Clause 7, page 4, line 20, at end insert “, ...

My Lords, as I have already, I declare my interest as chair of the Commission on Alcohol Harm. I ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to have the opportunity to speak in support of the noble Baroness, L...

My Lords, the Committee has every reason to be grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and t...

My Lords, I am glad to have put my name to these amendments and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady ...

My Lords, I am afraid that we will have to leave our deliberations there for this evening. I beg ...