Member

The noble Baroness has done us a good service, but this is not an issue on which we can celebrate. Like the other amendments in my name on AI child sexual abuse that were in this group in Committee—which I have not tabled because they will also be subject to announcements by the Home Office in the next few days—these issues are urgent and obvious and, frankly, we should not have to battle this hard to get laws on to the statute book that enshrine basic legal protections for women and children. I am really glad that the Government have chosen to act on these two issues and commend them for doing so.