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The other area which is important is that, at the moment, the assessment software that is used to identify perpetrators is the OASys risk-assessment tool. That has been in operation since 2001, and as noble Lords might imagine, it is not exactly state-of-the-art 2025 software. I am aware that the Minister and his team are bringing in a new version of this software, which will incorporate artificial intelligence, among other things, to speed up and improve the forensic examination of the degree of risk. That is sorely needed because, at the moment, this system that is still being widely used does not, for example, include things such as coercive and controlling behaviour, or non-fatal strangulation, when one is looking at domestic abuse or stalking. To not have those key elements, which are often involved in domestic abuse, as part of OASys is a fairly major flaw, to put it mildly.