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In 2006, the United Nations Children’s Fund produced the report “Behind Closed Doors: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children”, which explains that “some of the biggest victims of domestic violence are the smallest”.
We have gone through a process for two years since the initial declaration of intent to produce a bill, and it seems to me that there has been plenty of time to have produced a bill that was more robust in many areas.
Our information has come from the people who ran and managed the 2007 elections. The information that we have produced is at the lower end of the scale.
When you come back next year, I guarantee, on the basis of the figures that you produce year on year, that another 5,000 complaints will have been made.
Clearly, we are measuring ourselves against the notional figures or targets that we produce in Scotland. Do we benchmark how we are doing against overseas figures?
One issue is that there appears to be a reluctance on both sides to produce these common frameworks. My first question, to which I did not quite get an answer, was about the Scottish Government wanting to align Scotland with EU laws, without scrutiny.