I did not find the piece of paper from Refuge, but I knew it would be about 200 people. Just to make it clear for the record, in one ward in my constituency there will be 200 violent perpetrators of domestic abuse. To the Minister’s point that she did not wish to take my intervention on the piece of legislation that was passed, I will never, ever criticise this Government on that. They have passed lots of legislation, so the skins of goats have had lots of words written on them. It means absolutely nothing—pieces of words on goat skin mean absolutely nothing if they are not then properly resourced, managed and implemented in our communities. The women in refuge accommodation speak of little else than what a nirvana it has been recently under this Government.

We can all write nice words down on paper. But when we write them down and it turns out that, since those nice words were written and that law came into force—it was right before I was elected—only 2,000 people have been convicted of domestic abuse, when 2 million people suffer that crime every year, that is no record. We should stop. I wish that Governments—and my own side—would stop looking for announceables and start looking for system change: stop looking for things they can say that make them look good at the Dispatch Box, and start looking for the thing that saves people’s lives.

It is simply not good enough that 2,000 people have been convicted since we have had that piece of legislation. And now we have this new piece of legislation—some more words. I do not know whether they are still written on goat skin—before lots of animal rights people get in touch with me—but we write them on vellum. Before we write these words on vellum, let us just be clear that they would not satisfy or protect the domestic violence victims in one ward of my constituency.