Domestic Abuse Bill

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 7. Anyone wishing to press this or any other am...

Moved by

Baroness Stroud

7: Clause 3, page 3, line 3, after “abuse,” insert “includin...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 7 and the corresponding group in my name. I thank the nobl...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, for leading on this important aspect ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Eaton, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord McColl.

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 7, 8, 9, 78 and 90, which I support. Naming babies and the u...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, for leading on these amendments, with the aim ...

My Lords, I support Amendments 7, 8 and 9, tabled by my noble friend Lady Stroud. Why? Because un...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. I declare my interests as an officer of the...

My Lords, I speak to the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lady Stroud, because I fully s...

The noble Lord, Lord Cormack, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins.

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, has summarised some of the extensive research which as...

My Lords, I strongly support Amendments 7, 8, 9, 78 and 90. We have heard the very informed opini...

My Lords, I am going to be very disciplined in this Bill—some people may say that that is a bit u...

My Lords, unlike the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, and other noble Lords who have spoken so knowle...

My Lords, when, initiated by the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, and my noble friend Lady Armstrong ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Stroud for affording us the further opportunity to debate ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to the debate on this amendment, but espec...

My Lords, we still have another nine groups of amendments to cover if we are to hit today’s targe...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 10. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

10: Clause 8, page 5, line 29, at end insert—<...

My Lords, Amendment 10 heads up a group of amendments on social security which I will introduce, ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 72 and the consequential Amendment 102 in my name and those o...

My Lords, I was going to pass a short comment on each of the amendments because I agree with them...

My Lords, I agree with these amendments and in particular with what the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, ...

My Lords, I would like to speak to Amendment 10, and I am afraid I am going to make the argument ...

My Lords, I begin by acknowledging my noble friend Lady Lister and her heroic persistence in seek...

My Lords, I strongly support Amendments 10, 68 and 69, to which I have added my name. I also supp...

My Lords, I was very pleased to be able to attach my name to Amendments 10, 68 and 69 in the name...

My Lords, back in the days of the joint consultative committee on this Bill, on which I sat, we i...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Lister for her superb introduction and to all nob...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, and the noble Lord, Lord Best, for explaining ...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister and ask a short question of elucidation. ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response to this group of amendments, in particular to Ame...

Yes, I can certainly request that on behalf of the right reverend Prelate.

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, and also the Minister. Noble Lo...

We now come to Amendment 11. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a Division must make it cl...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

11: Clause 12, page 7, line 13, leave out “and not more than...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, I feel a sense of frustration. There are so many ...

My Lords, I am very glad that the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, has brought this matter back to th...

My Lords, I am pleased to have this opportunity to support the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, on th...

As my noble friend Lady Hamwee has outlined, this is a modest amendment which gives the commissio...

Amendment 11 would remove the upper limit of “not more than ten” for members of the domestic abus...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for setting out why she has tabled this amendment again,...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have supported this amendment. As my noble friend desc...

For the benefit of other noble Lords as well, I am happy to provide a quick response. We will cer...

I thank the Minister for that. I hope we do not feel an urgent need to review this issue. I beg l...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 12. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Baroness Burt of Solihull

12: Clause 15, page 9, line 42, at end insert—

My Lords, government Amendment 14 is very welcome. Clearly the call for the commissioner to have ...

My Lords, I rise briefly in support of Amendments 12 and 16, to which I have added my name. In Co...

The noble Lord, Lord Bhatia, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove.

My Lords, on average, two women a week are killed in the UK by a current or former partner. While...

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Morris of Aberavon, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Baron...

My Lords, I have added my name to and speak in support of Amendment 12, which would extend the li...

My Lords, we return now to the debate we had in Committee about the role of the domestic abuse co...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Russell, and to the noble Baronesses, Lady N...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 13. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Baroness Burt of Solihull

13: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, this small group brings together two amendments that I raised in Committee, both relati...

My Lords, I appreciate the time, but I am passionate about Amendment 13, hence my name being on i...

My Lords, I whole-heartedly support Amendments 13 and 76, to which I have added my name. I applau...

The noble Lord, Lord Rooker, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Baroness, Lady Watkins of Tav...

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests as outlined in the register. I am pleased to follow ot...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Burt and the noble Baronesses, Lady Newlove, Lady Meacher ...

My Lords, Amendment 13, moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Burt of Solihull, would require NHS bod...

My Lords, I assure the noble Baroness, Lady Burt of Solihull, that we share her objective that ch...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, and indeed to the...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

14: After Clause 16, insert the following new ...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 15. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

15: After Clause 16, insert the following new...

My Lords, it is my pleasure to move this amendment which relates to the training of all front-lin...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks, for signing Amendment 44 and for his assistance in ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Helic, for putting down and so persuasively o...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 44. This vital amendment was put forward by my noble fr...

My Lords, although I will speak to Amendment 15, I should say this on Amendment 44: who could not...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, and the very...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 44. I thank my noble friend Lady Helic and Claire Wax...

My Lords, I will be brief. It is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bertin, on the imp...

My Lords, I think I must be the only person who is opposing Amendment 44. I was president of the ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 15, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Armstrong, to whi...

My Lords, I am conscious of the time, so the House does not need 15 minutes from me on why we sho...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for the parting shot. I thank the noble Baroness,...

My Lords, I am grateful to everyone who has taken part and, given the hour, I will be very brief ...