Member

I support the Government’s intention in Clause 8 to expand the role of the commissioner to considering the cases of particular victims or witnesses when those raise issues of public policy that are of relevance to other victims or witnesses—in other words, the function is a general function—but I do not support what the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, is seeking in Amendment 59, if I have understood it correctly, that the limitation that it must be a case that raises general issues of importance should be removed. It seems to me quite right that that is what the Victims’ Commissioner should be focusing on.