Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD)

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I heard what the noble Baroness said, and I accept her premise. By the same rule of that premise, those people suffer or are treated badly until they become accepted in society and can then raise their heads above the parapet—if that is the logic of the argument the noble Baroness is trying to make to me. The noble Lord, Lord Marks, makes it quite clear that anonymity is absolutely four-square in this, so it does not happen that the media get hold of it or it appears on the networks and makes things different. Where a case ends up with the Secretary of State and the evidence is there that somebody is in such a situation, why should the Government not intervene and say, “You have been treated so badly that we are going to stand up for you in a tribunal” or, “We are going to try to do something”? If you look at the bigger picture rather than the individual pictures, there is a way through this, without thinking that it is—this is the last time I will say it—a bonkers Bill. It is not bonkers. The theory behind it is sound. Perhaps it has not been explained clearly enough.

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