Speeches by Hoare.

“It is.”

“Given that a female officer commands Blandford Camp, I totally echo the comments made by the hon. Member for North East Derbyshire (Louise Jones). There will be a lot of concern among personnel in the camp and those who live in the communities around it that they are now targets for either home-grown domestic terror or…”

“Does the right hon. Lady find it rather peculiar that the previous Parliament spent 746 hours discussing the death of a fox and about 98 hours discussing the death of fellow humans?”

“I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. What level of concern does it give her that, between Second Reading and today, a growing canon of professionals and their independent professional bodies have urged great caution about this Bill, not on the principle, but because they are opposed to the details of this Bil…”

“Just to establish some baseline understanding, I have three quick questions. You mentioned that there is often under-reporting or non-reporting among young women. Is it your assessment that there are too many women who do not actually recognise what violence against women and girls is, leaving an information or underst…”

“I understand the under-reporting. If you had a magic wand, what is the thing that would help? Is it better public information to define what violence against women and girls is and why it is not acceptable—the recognition bit? Is that the box you tick, or is it the resourcing and to whom you can report and see meaningf…”

“Sorry, is it not both? I take that point entirely, but if men and boys perpetrate in a vacuum of ignorance, they get away with what they are doing. We need to understand that what men and boys are doing is unacceptable, but women and girls need to understand what it is that is unacceptable and how to go about reporting…”

“Does anybody else want to add anything?”

“Dr McAlister, could you say a few words on your finding that some women may report, or indeed prefer to report, violence to paramilitaries?”

“Well, a mistrust or distrust in the police and a default to, “This is a problem here; we can get people here to intervene or resolve.””

“In the allocation of resources—scant as they might be, as Zoe has intimated—do you think there is sufficient weight given to this? I am thinking back to a predecessor Committee and an inquiry that was undertaken on the amount of intimidation, violence and abuse of women and girls that is done to effectively extract an …”

“Not in this heat. [Laughter.]”

“The right hon. Lady is setting out very clearly what the Bill is intended to be, and has rightly pointed to the cross-party support for the main thrust of it. Does she agree that that unanimity of purpose is put in grave jeopardy by the Christmas tree-ing of significant amendments relating to abortion? I know that she …”

“I am not a lawyer, but my hon. Friend has deployed a clear and compelling argument. At the beginning of his remarks, he referenced how amendment 19, to which I am a signatory, commands cross-party support. In advance of anything the Minister may say, is my hon. Friend able to indicate, from conversations he has had wit…”

“My friend the hon. Lady—I hope she does not mind if I refer to her as a friend—is making a clear point. She has drawn attention to a great deal of confusion and misrepresentation in respect of what she is trying to achieve in her new clause, and she has shared some heartrending examples. However, she has just said some…”

“I will not; I am very conscious of time. Madam Deputy Speaker, given that so many right hon. and hon. Members have been constrained in the length of their contributions because of your persistent cough—I say that not as a criticism—and that next week we have a lot of one-line Whips and the following week we have exactl…”

“My hon. Friend is right in what she says. Those of us who are opposed to the death penalty, for example, are against it because we do not believe in the infallibility of the state. The state can get things wrong; professionals can get things wrong—and when they do, there should be a proven, clear path as to how that wr…”

“I rise to speak in support of amendments (a) and (b) to new clause 14, new clauses 1, 2 and 16, and amendment (a) to new clause 15. I will make two observations at the outset. I do so as a Welshman representing an English constituency, as a former Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, and as the current Chai…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”