Clause 33 - Grants for assisting victims, witnesses etc
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]
3:15 pm
Mr David Heath (Shadow Minister (Home Affairs), Home Affairs; Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat)
The hon. and learned Lady is making an important point. I just question her interpretation. A lot of the groups that may be included in the definition will also deal prophylactically with issues associated with crime or domestic violence, and so on, and will seek to avoid an offence being committed. They may find it difficult to differentiate in their work between that which prevents an offence from being committed and what assists afterwards. I hope that the Government are not over-prescribing, and therefore over-defining, what such grants might be used for.