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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

My Lords, I welcome these amendments. I am grateful to the Government for addressing an area that I overlooked in the amendments that I had drafted. I also should like to place on record my gratitude to the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, who, with me, met the domestic violence groups, as we had promised in the previous proceedings. We had a very useful and fruitful meeting with open discussion. At the end, everyone agreed that it was very clear that there was never any intention that the pilots should involve domestic violence, particularly not at the beginning, because the issues around domestic violence are so complex. The organisations involved in domestic violence very much want to be consulted at every stage of further development and the programmes in place to help people cope in situations of domestic violence are very important in trying to provide a safer and more stable society. Amendment 33 agreed. Clause 78 : Piloting of alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirements Amendments 34 and 35 Clause 78 : Piloting of alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirements Amendments 34 and 35 Moved by