Clause 7 - Establishment and conduct of reviews
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]
10:15 am
Mr David Heath (Shadow Minister (Home Affairs), Home Affairs; Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat)
Other than looking slightly askance at the neologism of ''de-duplicate'', I entirely agree with the hon. Lady. She is right; we do not have a dispute. To re-duplicate my arguments, what we are all trying to achieve is that if we have a system it should be as comprehensive as possible, given the existing statute provision and the requirements that we foresee. There are other issues that I want to raise when we come to stand part, including the role of the coroners' courts, and I hope that the Minister will be able to help us with those.
However, for the moment I want the Committee to divide on at least one of these amendments, to demonstrate to the Government that we strongly wish to have a comprehensive and unduplicated approach. If the hon. Member for Lancaster and Wyre is minded not to press his amendment to a Division, I shall force a Division on mine, because we should demonstrate our intent. However, it would be
even better if the Solicitor-General were simply to say that she understands the arguments and accepts the amendments, or that she will come back with a rewording at a later stage.