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When the Domestic Abuse Bill, now an Act, was debated, the Conservative Government resisted criminalising this type of offence by quack psychotherapists in the context of that Bill. Their argument was based entirely on the proposition that domestic abuse, which was the subject of that Bill, should be seen as abuse in a family context, involving what were termed “connected people”. The noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, said on Report: