Member

This amendment aims to criminalise conduct that everyone who has considered the issue agrees is abusive and ought to attract a criminal sanction. The only reason the last Conservative Government gave for not accepting my amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill, now Act, in the terms I now propose, was that they wished to confine the concept of controlling and coercive behaviour in that Bill to abuse within family relationships. But this is a Crime and Policing Bill. Its Long Title includes the words: