Member

I should say at this point that it is not my intention to put this amendment to the vote, not least because it was drafted by my very inexpert hands. The Public Bill Office was kind enough to accept it, but I am not going to make great claims for my ability to write a law that should actually go on the statute books; it is a probing amendment. One of the ways in which the commissioner could access specialist knowledge is, obviously, from the Children’s Commissioner. That is why I levered it in, possibly slightly inelegantly, where the amendment says that the commissioner should co-operate with the Children’s Commissioner and other relevant children’s services. I hope to hear from the Minister an understanding that, although we understand that the Armed Forces are in many ways a special case, we need to think about the people who have the special skills to deal with children and to support the Armed Forces commissioner in holding those inquiries when it deals with children. That is my case. I beg to move.