I beg to move,

That—

(1) the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 11.30 am on Thursday 4 June) meet—

(a) at 2.00 pm on Thursday 4 June;

(b) at 9.25 am and 2.00 pm on Tuesday 9 June;

(c) at 9.25 am and 2.00 pm on Wednesday 10 June;

(d) at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 11 June;

(e) at 9.25 am and 2.00 pm on Tuesday 16 June;

(f) at 9.25 am and 2.00 pm on Wednesday 17 June;

(2) the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following Table:

TABLE

Date

Time

Witness

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 12.30 pm

Nicole Jacobs, Designate

Domestic Abuse

Commissioner

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 1.00 pm

Southall Black Sisters

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 2.15 pm

Latin American Women’s

Rights Service

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 2.45 pm

Somiya Basar; Saliha Rashid

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 3.15 pm

Women’s Aid Federation of England;

End Violence Against

Women Coalition

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 3.45 pm

Refuge; SafeLives

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 4.15 pm

Hestia; Gisela Valle, Step Up

Migrant Women UK

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 4.30 pm

Dame Vera Baird QC,

Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses

Thursday 4 June

Until no later than 5.00 pm

Local Government

Association;

Welsh Women’s Aid

(3) proceedings on consideration of the Bill in Committee shall be taken in the following order: Clauses 1 to 37; Schedule 1; Clauses 38 to 62; Schedule 2; Clauses 63 to 73; new Clauses; new Schedules; remaining proceedings on the Bill;

(4) the proceedings on the Bill shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 5.00 pm on Thursday 25 June.

I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone, alongside my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham, the co-Minister for this important piece of legislation. We want to get on and hear the evidence from our commissioner, the first witness, so I will be brief. The motion provides the Committee with sufficient time to scrutinise this landmark Bill. I welcome the fact that it will enable us to hear evidence from 14 witnesses, including survivors of domestic abuse, so I invite the Committee to agree it.