Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Sheila Gilmore Excerpts
Tuesday 15th February 2011

(13 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Crispin Blunt Portrait Mr Blunt
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I am very grateful to my hon. Friend who has done particularly good work in this area in getting policy changes under the previous Administration. We want to make restorative justice and compensation orders the first point of departure for such offences so that offenders are able to make good to their victims.

Sheila Gilmore Portrait Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East) (Lab)
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T8. Will the Minister reconsider his original thinking on the definition of domestic violence and the evidential requirement when deciding whether to make legal aid available in family law cases?

Jonathan Djanogly Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Mr Jonathan Djanogly)
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I have to tell the hon. Lady that we have just consulted on this—the consultation ended yesterday—and that we will consider carefully what people have said. We put a definition of domestic violence in the Green Paper and we will look carefully at how people have commented on that.