Domestic Abuse: Rural Communities Debate

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Department: Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Rural Communities

Baroness Pitkeathley Excerpts
Tuesday 24th May 2016

(8 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Keen of Elie Portrait Lord Keen of Elie
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The Government are already making headway in this area, and indeed have expanded the troubled families programme so that it now includes domestic violence and abuse as one of the six core themes.

Baroness Pitkeathley Portrait Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab)
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My Lords, in his Answer, the Minister mentioned violence. Assiduous followers of “The Archers”, as I confess I am, will know that it escalated into violence only at the very end of the storyline—actually, I do not think we have seen the end yet, by a long way. The issue is coercive control, which by its very nature is subtle and very difficult to identify. Could the Minister expand on his Answer in relation to that?

Lord Keen of Elie Portrait Lord Keen of Elie
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Of course. I quite recognise the point that is being made, although I have to confess not to being a listener of “The Archers”.