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Baroness Brinton (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 March 2026

Debate

Victims and Courts Bill

Contribution

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her comments. The difficulty we face is that a lot of the responses from the Government talk about raising victims’ expectations. We are trying to balance raising victims’ expectations with the crisis that they are facing when they do not to get the service they are entitled to or—as in this particular case, of murder victims abroad—because at the moment they are lacking in formal terms. Even if the Government wish to create a separate document, which I would entirely endorse, I suspect that it would have to be signposted in the victims’ code, because a lot of people would look there first. On that basis, and perhaps to encourage the Government to move a little faster on this, I wish to test the opinion of the House.

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