Domestic Abuse Bill

My Lords, the amendments in this group are government amendments tabled in my name. The principal...

My Lords, I warmly commend the sterling efforts of the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, to see the i...

My Lords, I too welcome the amendments. I welcome the new offence of non-fatal strangulation and ...

My Lords, I will keep my remarks short, in view of the amount of work to get through today. I con...

My Lords, in view of the pressure of time, I shall be brief, but I could not allow this amendment...

My Lords, this Bill will be remembered in years to come for the many important changes and reform...

My Lords, like others who have spoken, I am absolutely delighted at this outcome and grateful to ...

My Lords, the important issue of non-fatal strangulation has been powerfully supported by the nob...

My Lords, first, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Newlove on bringing forward these amendments...

My Lords, I thank everybody in the Chamber and speaking virtually for their very kind words. This...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

20: Clause 55, page 35, line 25, leave out “domesti...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 21. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a ...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

21: Clause 55, page 35, line 28, at end insert—<...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for meeting me and the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, an...

My Lords, I declare my interests as vice-president of NACCC and the co-chair of the All-Party Par...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for meeting the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and other supporters ...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, said, the Minister has been generous with his time ...

My Lords, as I indicated in Committee, I fully recognise that the provision of child contact cent...

I have a request to ask the Minister a short question from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of P...

My Lords, may I address head on two points that the Minister has raised? First, the case has been...

I will be brief. On the first point that my noble friend raised about evidence, I accept that peo...

I am most grateful to the Minister for his fulsome reply and for trying to get to grips with this...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

22: Clause 55, page 35, line 30, leave out first “d...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 23. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a ...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

23: Clause 55, page 35, line 30, at end insert “...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the Commission on Alcohol Harm. The commission receiv...

My Lords, I want to take a moment to support the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, in her ...

I should have declared earlier an interest as chairman of the National Commission on Forced Marri...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, who suppo...

My Lords, we had an extensive and informed debate on this issue in Committee, so there is no need...

My Lords, it is important to recognise that domestic abuse does not happen in a neat silo. It is ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Finlay and Lady Burt, and the noble Lord, Lord Brook...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for the detail she has provided in her full reply. I unde...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

24: Clause 55, page 36, line 2, at end insert—...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

27: Clause 56, page 36, line 31, after “about”...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 32. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

32: Clause 62, page 39, line 23, after “person” ins...

My Lords, I apologise for the short intermission while we changed places. The government amendmen...

My Lords, I explained in Committee the reasons for my amendments, which were directed at ensuring...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames, for pursuing this issue. It is ...

My Lords, I hope the House will forgive me if I am brief, because I am conscious there is a lot o...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

33: Clause 64, page 47, line 21, at end insert—

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 41. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

41: After Clause 64, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, Amendments 41 and 104 relate to Section 91(14) of the Children Act 1989. Last year we c...

My Lords, we support this government amendment and the amendment of the Title of the Bill that go...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these amendments, which we support. As he explaine...

My Lords, again, I hope that the House and the noble Lords, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames and Lo...

We now come to Amendment 42. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a Division must make that ...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

42: After Clause 64, insert the following new ...

My Lords, I had to bring this amendment back on Report, because I did not think that the Minister...

In my short time in this House, I have been hugely impressed by the fairness, clarity and reasona...

My Lords, I entirely agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Fox. I recognise the good intentions of ...

My Lords, the presumption of contact cannot be the first indicated assurance by the family court ...

My Lords, I expressed my concern in Committee at the proposal to abandon the presumption in subse...

My Lords, the proposed new clause in this amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Mo...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, has explained, Amendment 42 seeks to ...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. I listened very carefully but did n...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 43. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a ...

Moved by

Baroness Bertin

43: After Clause 64, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, I laid this amendment in Committee because I was genuinely shocked that a refuge addres...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bertin, for bringing this amendment back. She has explained the ...

My Lords, I support this amendment, eloquently and powerfully detailed by the noble Baronesses, L...

My Lords, I supported this amendment in principle in Committee. I expressed one or two drafting r...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Bertin, powerfully moved this amendment and went into the deta...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Bertin for her continued engagement on the i...

I thank noble Lords for their valuable contributions to this short but very important debate. I a...

Amendment 44 was previously debated on Monday. Does the noble Baroness, Lady Helic, wish to move ...

Moved by

Baroness Helic

44: After Clause 64, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, I wish to move Amendment 44.

My Lords, I shall now put the question. We have heard from the noble Baroness, Lady Helic, taking...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 45. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

45: Before Clause 65, insert the following new...

My Lords, it is with great pleasure that I introduce Amendment 45 and consequential amendments, w...

Moved by

Baroness Campbell of Surbiton

46: Before Clause 65, in subsection (4), after...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 46, I will speak also to my Amendment 47 and to Amendment 45 in the...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 46 and 47, which are in the name of my noble friend Lady Campbell...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 45, but I do want to reference the noble Baronesses, Lady Cam...

My Lords, Amendments 46 and 47, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surbiton, wou...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 45, but before I do so, perhaps I may record my conce...

My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in this debate. Before I speak to Amendment 45, I want t...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the National Housing Federation, the trade body for h...

My Lords, Amendment 45 is crucial and unreservedly welcome. It is awful to see someone subject to...

I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak. I was delighted to see the Minister’s name on Ame...

Amendment 45 ensures that the existing offence of coercive or controlling behaviour applies to ab...

My Lords, as noble Lords have pointed out, Amendment 45 removes the cohabitation requirement cont...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have supported my amendments. I am grateful for the very ki...

My Lords, before the Question is put on Amendment 45, I first pay tribute to the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, we have completed scrutiny of 10 groups of amendments and have a further seven to cover...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 48. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Cotes

48: Before Clause 65, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in the later stage of debates on this important Bill, and...

My Lords, I will be brief, but as my name was on the original amendment I wanted to thank the nob...

My Lords, I too acknowledge with enthusiasm and, if I may say so, admiration the dedicated energy...

My Lords, I was rather surprised to discover that the Government have accepted this amendment. Th...

My Lords, Amendment 48 is in my name and those of my noble friends Lady Morgan and Lord Wolfson, ...

My Lords, like everybody else who has spoken, I say that this is extremely welcome. We thank the ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lords who have spoken, and I am very grateful to t...

My Lords, this is such a sensible addition to Section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2...

My Lords, I will be brief. I would like to congratulate everybody who brought us to this successf...

My Lords, I start by addressing directly the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley....

My Lords, I must begin by applauding the frankness and honesty of the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, i...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Morgan is to be congratulated on bringing forward these amendments...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke in the debate on these amendments. As we heard the no...

Moved by

Baroness Newlove

49: Before Clause 65, insert the following new Clause—

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 50. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

50: After Clause 68, insert the following new ...

It is a great privilege to take part in this debate and to hear the voices of so many people with...

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness. I appreciate that she has three amendments ...

The third one does not count.

She has taken 20 minutes to do so already and the House is keen to debate the amendments she is p...

I feel that that was unnecessary, but I was coming to my conclusion anyway. There must be a causa...

My Lords, we have heard a passionate and erudite speech by the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of Th...

My Lords, I am glad that the noble Baroness is intent on pursuing these two amendments, to which ...

My Lords, I spoke in support of Amendments 50 and 66 in Committee and have added my name to them ...

My Lords, I agree with every word that we have heard so far, and I have signed all three of these...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Hamwee has already set out our support for all three of these amen...

My Lords, Amendment 50 is proposed by my noble friend Lady Kennedy of The Shaws, along with Amend...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws, for providing...

I have received no requests to speak after the Minister; accordingly, I call the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, I am of course disappointed but not surprised by the response, as it was indicated that...

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

51: After Clause 68, insert the following new ...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 52. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a ...

My Lords, we had an extensive debate on our amendment in this form in Committee. We have brought ...

My Lords, I co-signed and spoke in favour of this amendment when it was moved in Committee by the...

My Lords, we discussed in Committee that there are no laws against anyone operating as a therapis...

My Lords, in addition to the powerful arguments that have already been brought by noble friends, ...

My Lords, the arguments about the Bill being suitable for this measure that have been advanced ag...

My Lords, I too speak this evening in support of the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Marks. I a...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate and I thank all Members who have taken part. The pr...

My Lords, Amendment 52 moved by the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames, seeks to insert a...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames, and all other noble Lo...

My Lords, it is late in the evening and I shall be brief. We have heard a detailed argument from ...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 53. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

53: Schedule 2, page 65, line 37, leave out from be...

My Lords, these amendments fulfil an undertaking I gave in Committee in response to amendments ta...

My Lords, given the hour I will be very brief. I thank the Government and my noble friend the Min...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bertin, for identifying this gap whereby...

My Lords, this group of amendments addresses marital rape, whereby rape could be committed by a U...

My Lords, I hope the House will forgive me again if my reply is very brief, not because the issue...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

54: Schedule 2, page 66, leave out lines 12 and 13<...

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

66: After Schedule 2, insert the following new...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 66A. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a...

Moved by

Lord Randall of Uxbridge

66A: Clause 71, page 56, line 12, at end insert—