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What reassurance can my hon.

What reassurance can my hon.

May I begin by thanking the Public Bill Committee, which met on 12 January to consider the Bill in detail?

I thank my right hon. Friend for that, and he is absolutely right.

My hon. Friend is right: this is about coercion, persuasion and accepting that this is the norm in a family.

May I begin by thanking the Public Bill Committee, which met on 12 January to consider the Bill in detail?

I thank my right hon. Friend for that, and he is absolutely right.

My hon. Friend is right: this is about coercion, persuasion and accepting that this is the norm in a family.

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Northern Ireland is consulting, and I think that Scotland is about to do so.

I am pleased to speak to these amendments, which I am confident will make the Bill clearer and cleaner, and provide more effective, targe