Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]

Public Bill Committees, 29 June 2004

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair]

9:10 am
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Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Shadow Minister, Home, Constitutional & Legal Affairs; Chesham & Amersham, Conservative)

On a point of order, Mr. Benton. There have been reports this morning of investigations being conducted in relation to murder and manslaughter, which will obviously have an impact on the subjects that we are discussing. Can the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, the hon. Member for Wythenshawe and Sale, East (Paul Goggins), make available any details that his Department has on those reviews and say whether there has been any analysis of the impact that they could have on, for example, the domestic violence homicide reviews that we discussed at an earlier sitting?

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Mr Paul Goggins (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Wythenshawe & Sale East, Labour)

Further to that point of order, Mr. Benton, I do not have anything to add immediately to enlighten the hon. Lady, but I promise to look into her point. If there is any appropriate information, I shall bring it to the Committee.Clause 10 restraining orders: England and Wales