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Rob Butler Excerpts
Tuesday 28th June 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ellie Reeves Portrait Ellie Reeves
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Victims would be at the heart of everything a Labour Government do, whereas the Government have time and again promised a victims Bill that still has not made it on to the statute book. Our party is on the side of victims; theirs lets victims down.

Rob Butler Portrait Rob Butler (Aylesbury) (Con)
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Is the hon. Member aware that the draft Victims Bill is currently undergoing prelegislative scrutiny by the Justice Committee at this very moment in a Committee Room upstairs?

Ellie Reeves Portrait Ellie Reeves
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I am well aware of that. I am also aware that it was six years ago that the Government first proposed a victims Bill and we have been waiting for it ever since. Where is it?