Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:00 pm on 16 October 2007.
Adele Kirkwood: Our main concern was where they would be. It might be a safe house if there are two or more, but if there are three or four, five or six, and it is in a residential area, we would have concerns over that, as we did with the original consultation, which was quite a while ago. The consultation papers were feeling for ideas on how to make what these women were doing safer, and suggested that putting two or three together would help. Our biggest concern was the knock-on effect for residents and neighbours, with calls to the police and how to deal with people taking it upon themselves to deal with matters. That was our main concern, but the consultation was some time ago and I have not seen it since.