Member

I slightly hesitate to do this, but, on the basis that no good deed goes unpunished and the Government managed to put in a new priority for the strangulation offence—and I add my congratulations, as I did when I last spoke—but the detail with which the noble Baroness has laid out her amendments speaks to the need for the Government to transfer this into existing legislation to make sure that we have caught up, to use the Secretary of State powers and so on. We cannot keep on waiting. My biggest urging throughout the whole of this Committee stage will be for action and to say that better can be the enemy of best. The noble Baroness has done her homework, and I am sure she is open on the drafting itself, but the point she is making is that there are these holes and we need them fixed in order to protect women.