Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for his Department to respond to it's consultation on the draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill; and what the timetable is for further steps to be taken in relation to that Bill.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
On 8 March we launched a 12 week public consultation on proposals for a landmark domestic abuse Bill and a supporting package of practical action to transform the response to domestic abuse. The consultation closed on 31 May. Over 3,200 responses to the consultation were received. The responses to the consultation are being considered and a draft Bill will be published later this session.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for his Department to respond to it's consultation on the draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill; and what the timetable is for further steps to be taken in relation to that Bill.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
On 8 March we launched a 12 week public consultation on proposals for a landmark domestic abuse Bill and a supporting package of practical action to transform the response to domestic abuse. The consultation closed on 31 May. Over 3,200 responses to the consultation were received. The responses to the consultation are being considered and a draft Bill will be published later this session.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution of Lord Ahmed of Wimbledon, of 17 January 2018, House of Lords Official Report, column 701, when the review of the exchange of notes between the UK government and the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies expected to be published by the end of March will be published; and what the reasons are for the time taken to publish that report.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The review of the implementation of the arrangements with the relevant Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies is complete and will be published in due course.