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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Peter Kyle Excerpts
Tuesday 5th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dominic Raab Portrait Dominic Raab
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As I have just said, the legislation was announced in the Queen’s Speech. Obviously, we have a packed parliamentary timetable at the moment, with the EU measure and other aspects of that, but we are committed to introducing legislation and we will announce details soon.

Peter Kyle Portrait Peter Kyle (Hove) (Lab)
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Earlier this year, the Secretary of State generously agreed to amend the Courts legislation and introduce primary legislation to outlaw the cross-examination of victims by domestic abuse perpetrators. The principle of using primary legislation to tackle the matter has been agreed. When will he introduce primary legislation to tackle the issue?