"And I was very open with journalists, so they didn't try to fill in gaps in the story, which meant a platform of mutual respect was established from the outset," Batty will say.
Anthony Steen, who advised on the legislation and chairs the Human Trafficking Foundation, said the bill, which will be debated in parliament on Tuesday for its third reading, had "yawning gaps", and failed to focus on the needs of victims of trafficking in the UK.
Related: Hainan gibbon 'clinging on' with 25 left in China "If they [the gaps] are tens of metres across rather than hundreds of metres, there are different ways of bridging those.
After all the years' work, the narrow gaps that remain and the potentially frightening consequences of failure, no one here can afford a collapse.
"However, what is emerging now is a much more collaborative approach with all stakeholders seeing how they can align their services to fill gaps.
Look at a list of British writers who have appeared on stamps and the gaps are consequently glaring and the number remarkably small – roughly the same as the 27 in the US's literary arts series, produced by a nation with only a 240-year history.
These are just some of the gaps that have been revealed in the inquest so far: vital information about Anderson's mental health and criminal charges weren't always conveyed to Batty by police and child protection, and warrants for his arrest weren't executed for days after they were issued.
The issue stirred controversy at the climate summit in Lima, where there were big gaps between the science of climate change and the policy and business responses.
DeMille himself strolls on screen at the beginning of the film, to explain how he has filled the gaps in the Biblical story of Moses's life with the work of historians such as Josephus and Philo.
He stops himself, retraces his steps, leaves long gaps while searching for exactly the right metaphor.
In 2010, Gove pushed through the Academies Bill in less than a week while Labour was diverted by their election loss It is, however, a manifesto with big gaps.
