Draft Domestic Abuse Bill

Inquiry Draft Domestic Abuse Bill

Witnesses 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.

Witnesses 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).

Witnesses 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).