Baroness Brinton (LD)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this fairly short debate. I think we have managed to get to the essence of the issues remaining from Committee. I am particularly grateful to the Minister for her explanation about children born by rape and conceived pre sentencing. I really welcome her comments on that. I think from across the House we also want to thank her and the Government for delivering on Jade’s law. We are not quite there yet but, as I think everyone across the House accepts, there is a considerable amount of work to do and it is more important to get it right when it starts at the end of the year. I understand the points the Minister made on my Amendment 1. This goes to the heart of this set of amendments. I spoke about the difficulties between the criminal court system and the family court system and why children are falling between the gaps. I accept these issues and will not call a Division on my amendment, but I really hope the Government can bring forward a Bill where we can discuss both the family courts and the criminal courts and get some understanding and change on these sensitive and difficult issues of safe- guarding children. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.