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	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to bring forward proposals to criminalise coercive control and psychological abuse for the purpose of protection of victims of domestic violence.
	tabling member constituency	Braintree
	tabling member printed	Mr Brooks Newmark
	uin	201084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Last September, the Home Secretary commissioned Her Majesty's Inspectorate of <br>Constabulary to conduct a review of the response to domestic abuse <br>across all police forces. HMIC published its findings in March 2014, <br>emphasising that the key priority is a culture change in the police so that <br>domestic violence and abuse is treated as the crime that it is and that the <br>police use the full range of tools already available to them. <br><br>In response to the Review, the Home Secretary has established a new national <br>oversight group, which she is chairing, and on which I sit, to oversee delivery <br>against each of HMIC's recommendations. Their first meeting was held <br>on 10 June. The Home Secretary has also written to chief constables making it clear<br>that every police force must have an action plan in place by September 2014. <br><br>There are a number of offences that make domestic abuse illegal, including <br>actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm and assault. Assault can extend to <br>non-physical harm. This Government has introduced stalking and harassment <br>legislation which can apply to coercive control and psychological abuse. <br>However, the Government will continue to consider what measures will drive <br>culture change in the police in response to the findings of the HMIC review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker grouped question UIN 201085 question first answered 26/06/2014 16:08:31 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
	tabling member	1488 label Biography information for Mr Brooks Newmark

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	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has in response to the HM Inspector of Constabulary Inquiry into police response to domestic violence in creating a culture change towards domestic violence.
	tabling member constituency	Braintree
	tabling member printed	Mr Brooks Newmark
	uin	201085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Last September, the Home Secretary commissioned Her Majesty's Inspectorate of <br>Constabulary to conduct a review of the response to domestic abuse <br>across all police forces. HMIC published its findings in March 2014, <br>emphasising that the key priority is a culture change in the police so that <br>domestic violence and abuse is treated as the crime that it is and that the <br>police use the full range of tools already available to them. <br><br>In response to the Review, the Home Secretary has established a new national <br>oversight group, which she is chairing, and on which I sit, to oversee delivery <br>against each of HMIC's recommendations. Their first meeting was held <br>on 10 June. The Home Secretary has also written to chief constables making it clear<br>that every police force must have an action plan in place by September 2014. <br><br>There are a number of offences that make domestic abuse illegal, including <br>actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm and assault. Assault can extend to <br>non-physical harm. This Government has introduced stalking and harassment <br>legislation which can apply to coercive control and psychological abuse. <br>However, the Government will continue to consider what measures will drive <br>culture change in the police in response to the findings of the HMIC review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker grouped question UIN 201084 question first answered 26/06/2014 16:08:31 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
	tabling member	1488 label Biography information for Mr Brooks Newmark