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<p>The ambitious cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
Strategy set out a series of measures to help ensure that women and girls are safe
everywhere - at home, online, at work and in public. This was followed by a complementary
Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, published in March 2022. So far, we have completed 69%
of the commitments across both strategy documents.</p><p>Delivery is overseen by a
cross-Government VAWG Ministerial Steering Group (VAWG MSG). The last VAWG MSG took
place on 1<sup>st</sup> May and was chaired by the Home Secretary. Part of the meeting
focused on accelerating delivery of the remaining strategy commitments.</p><p>Many
of our interventions are funded through grants awarded to third parties. These grants
are actively monitored with recipients providing regular monitoring and end of financial
year reports.</p><p>We are assessing the overall impact of measures set out in the
strategies against the ambition to increase support to victims and survivors and bring
more perpetrators to justice.</p><p>Our long-term ambition is to reduce the prevalence
of violence against women. This is monitored via the published crime statistics, which
include police recorded crime and Crime Survey for England and Wales data, as well
as via other published criminal justice agency data. The latest data can be found
here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2023"
target="_blank">Crime in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Estimates
from the 2022/23 CSEW showed that 5.1% of adults aged 16 to 59 years experienced domestic
abuse in the previous year (<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables"
target="_blank">Domestic abuse prevalence and victim characteristics - Office for
National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>). This was a statistically significant decrease
compared with the year ending March 2020 (6.1%), a year largely unaffected by the
COVID-19 pandemic. Over the same period, the prevalence of sexual assault and stalking
has remained stable with no statistically significant changes.</p>
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