Baroness Grey-Thompson (CB)

Sorry, I did not mean to be funny. We are using old data or data that is incomplete. The data I found, which is from 2017-18, showed that 139,500 women and 74,300 men aged 60 to 74 experienced domestic abuse. Those are huge numbers. Hourglass estimates that 2.7 million older people experience abuse, and in Australia, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety said that 39.2% of older people experience neglect and emotional and physical abuse. I am very sorry that my noble friend Lady Hollins is unable to be here today, because her experience of assessing patients—the thousands of patients she has worked with—would be quite important. We were told by the honourable Member for Spen Valley, Ms Leadbeater, that there would be detailed conversations, so not to worry. But I question what those detailed conversations will look like. My husband and I have very different views on what a detailed conversation is. To cover the issue of panels briefly, I have no experience of such panels; the only experience of panels that I have is for Olympic and Paralympic selection, which is very different. But you are talking about someone’s life in sport, and potentially their career can be ended by a decision—although I am in no way conflating those two things. But in that process an athlete who has not been selected is able to appeal only the process and not the decision. That is a really important thing, because most athletes never understand what they are trying to appeal to get to go to a major Games. So it needs to be very clearly understood what that appeal process should look like.