Member

I start by agreeing with the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss. I have met many 10 year-olds who have a very clear-eyed vision of the world and their place in it, and they should certainly be given a voice. This is something that I have spoken about in other Bills. I think particularly of the Domestic Abuse Bill, now an Act, where there was a strongly minded debate around alleged parental alienation and the way in which children’s voices have sometimes not been listened to and they have been forced to do things strongly against their will and desires.