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Draft Domestic Abuse Bill

Inquiry by the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee), 14 March 2019 to 14 March 2019. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 2 April 2019: Lucy Hadley, Campaigns and Public Affairs Officer, Women’s Aid, Andrea Simon, Public Affairs Manager, End Violence Against Women, and Ellie Butt, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Refuge; Karla McLaren Government and Political Relations Manager, Amnesty International, Olive Craig, Senior Legal Officer, Rights of Women, and Rachel Robinson, Principal, Justice Domain, Equality and Human Rights Commission (at 11.30am).
  • 23 April 2019: Emily Frith, Head of Policy and Advocacy, Office of the Children's Commissioner, Eleanor Briggs, Head of Policy and Research, Action for Children, and Debbie Moss, Chief of Staff, Barnardo's; Elspeth Thomson, member of the Resolution National Committee, Resolution, Amanda Barron JP, Domestic Abuse Liaison Magistrate for the Central London Magistrates Courts, Nicole Jacobs, CEO, and Tanya Allen, Specialist Domestic Abuse Court Coordinator, Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (at 11.30am).
  • 30 April 2019: Duncan Shrubsole, Director of Policy, Communications and Research, Lloyds Banking Foundation, and Lyndsey Dearlove, Head of UK SAYS NO MORE, Hestia Housing and Support; Donna Covey CBE, Chief Executive, Against Violence and Abuse (AVA), Dr Jasna Magic, Domestic Abuse Research and Policy Development, Galop, Jo Todd, Chief Executive Officer, Respect, and Ruth Bashall, Chief Executive Officer, Stay Safe East (at 11.30am).
  • 7 May 2019: Dame Glenys Stacey, HM Chief Inspector of Probation, Suzanne Jacob OBE, Chief Executive, SafeLives, and Penelope Gibbs, Director, Transform Justice; DCC Louisa Rolfe, NPCC lead on domestic abuse, National Police Chiefs' Council, Detective Superintendent Deb Smith, Police Superintendents Association, Nazir Afzal OBE, Welsh Government adviser on Violence against Women and former Chief Executive of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, and Kate Ellis, Solicitor, Centre for Women's Justice (at 12 noon).
  • 14 May 2019: Zehrah Hasan, Policy and Campaigns Assistant, Liberty, Lucila Granada, Director, Latin American Women’s Rights Service, Jane Gordon, Legal Director, Sisters for Change, and Marchu Girma, Deputy Director, Women for Refugee Women; Tina Reece, Head of Engagement, Welsh Women’s Aid, and Kevin Hyland OBE, the former Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner (at 11.30am).
  • 21 May 2019: Councillor Simon Blackburn, Chair of the LGA Safer, Stronger Communities Board and Leader of Blackpool City Council, and Hannah Gousy, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Crisis; Victoria Atkins MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Women), Home Office, and Edward Argar MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (at 11.15am).
  • 22 May 2019: Mrs Heather Wheeler MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and Jackie Doyle-Price MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health and Social Care.