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1503392

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what precautionary safety mechanisms her Department is helping to establish and support in London to tackle and prevent violence against women.
tabling member constituency	Ilford South
tabling member printed	Sam Tarry
uin	45099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is determined to tackle and prevent VAWG wherever it occurs.</p><p>To support preventing and tackling these crimes in London, we have:</p><ul><li>Allocated over £1.5 million was allocated to projects in London through the Safer Streets Fund and Safety of Women at Night Fund which support areas to put in place measures such as extra CCTV and streetlighting and projects which work to change attitudes and behaviours;</li><li>Awarded over £300,000 to the London Borough of Redbridge, this financial year to continue funding the Spotlight Programme which seeks to help perpetrators change their abusive behaviour. This forms part of £2.5 million awarded to the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime to fund perpetrator interventions;</li><li>Provided £6.65m to Operation Soteria, which is working with 19 police forces, including the Metropolitan Police Service, to test and develop a new national operating model for the investigation and prosecution of rape.</li></ul><p>In addition, the Metropolitan Police are rolling out Domestic Abuse Matters training to their officers, to support their response to domestic abuse incidents.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway grouped question UIN 45048 question first answered 07/09/2022 09:12:58 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4829 label Biography information for Sam Tarry

1367564

registered interest
date	09/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ensure the development of an expert-informed public awareness campaigns on violence against women in the forthcoming Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	72558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>In July we published the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ftackling-violence-against-women-and-girls-strategy&amp;data=04%7C01%7CHelen.Fielder2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cba58f337ae6f448c5e9508d993051b3b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637702472396607173%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=q0OHfG4v1jTq50V9GnQvfqnfMiJt8fKWH%2FPAclPeT5Y%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy</a> to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online and on the streets.</p><p>The new strategy commits this government to using communications to create behaviour change that targets and challenge perpetrators, educates young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensures victims can recognise abuse and non-contact sexual offending.</p><p>The Strategy was informed by an unprecedented 180,000 responses from the general public and stakeholders as part of our Call for Evidence. As we develop the campaign, we are continuing to consult stakeholders, including third sector organisations, academics and victims’ services to ensure their expertise, insights and experience are reflected in the campaign.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 16/11/2021 13:04:23 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1360676

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of an expert-led public awareness campaign on male violence against women and girls, following the murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	58342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>We have recently published the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ftackling-violence-against-women-and-girls-strategy&amp;data=04%7C01%7CHelen.Fielder2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cba58f337ae6f448c5e9508d993051b3b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637702472396607173%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=q0OHfG4v1jTq50V9GnQvfqnfMiJt8fKWH%2FPAclPeT5Y%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy</a> to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online and on the streets.</p><p>The new strategy commits this government to using communications to create behaviour change that targets and challenge perpetrators, educates young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensures victims can recognise abuse and non-contact sexual offending. The Strategy was informed by an unprecedented 180,000 responses from the general public and stakeholders as part of our Call for Evidence.</p><p>The campaign follows the swift action at the beginning of the pandemic last year where the Government launched the #YouAreNotAlone campaign. The campaign raised awareness of domestic abuse and the support available to those suffering from it, signposting those seeking support to the gov.uk domestic abuse support page <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fdomestic-abuse-how-to-get-help&amp;data=04%7C01%7CHelen.Fielder2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cba58f337ae6f448c5e9508d993051b3b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637702472396607173%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=BsQ%2FDZxXzbpuRpo0FZFZtfsuS%2FFLPu9rbbGyfIj3Gig%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> where they can access support services, including Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline. The campaign reached millions of people through digital advertising, and specialist community engagement activity with campaign materials translated into 16 languages.</p><p>We also launched and promoted the ‘Ask for ANI’ codeword scheme which provides a simple and discreet way for domestic abuse victims to signal that they need immediate help using a codeword in participating pharmacies. Almost half of all pharmacies across the UK, including Boots, are now participating in the scheme, following the launch in January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 26/10/2021 15:30:11 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1356823

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services report, Police response to violence against women and girls - Final inspection report, published 17 September 2021.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	51681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2021 answer text <p>This Government is absolutely committed to tackling and preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG). That is why the Home Secretary commissioned HM Inspectorate of Police and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) to carry out an inspection into the police response to these crimes.</p><p>We are considering the report’s recommendations and have already supported the recommendation from HMICFRS’s interim report to introduce a full-time national police lead for VAWG, which the Home Office is funding. We look forward to working with DCC Maggie Blyth, who has been appointed to the role, to address the report’s findings and further support our wider work on VAWG, including our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, which we published in July.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/09/2021 15:59:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1350858

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of funding a public awareness campaign on male violence against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	41068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>We have recently published the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ftackling-violence-against-women-and-girls-strategy&amp;data=04%7C01%7CHelen.Fielder2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C11357129b42e414d951b08d962f6cbe9%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649634381120586%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=rIoilVk7SXbVF6ccv0ecocU9vR%2Bdaj%2BgROOPi5WpA9c%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy</a> to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online and on the streets. The new strategy commits this government to using communications to create behaviour change that targets and challenge perpetrators, educates young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensures victims can recognise abuse and non-contact sexual offending. The Strategy was informed by an unprecedented 180,000 responses from the general public and stakeholders as part of our Call for Evidence.</p><p>The campaign follows the swift action at the beginning of the pandemic last year where the Government launched the #YouAreNotAlone campaign. The campaign raised awareness of domestic abuse and the support available to those suffering from it, signposting those seeking support to the gov.uk domestic abuse support page <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help" target="_blank">Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> where they can access support services, including Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline. The campaign reached millions of people through digital advertising, and specialist community engagement activity with campaign materials translated into 16 languages.</p><p>We also launched and promoted the ‘Ask for ANI’ codeword scheme which provides a simple and discreet way for domestic abuse victims to signal that they need immediate help using a codeword in participating pharmacies. Almost half of all pharmacies across the UK, including Boots, are now participating in the scheme, following the launch in January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 11:57:53 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1192175

registered interest
date	01/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's strategy entitled Ending Violence against Women and Girls 2016-2020, when she plans to publish a new version of that strategy.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	42062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2020 answer text <p>Protecting women and girls from violence remains a key priority of this Government. In March 2019 we published a refreshed Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy and Male Victims’ Position Statement to update and reinforce our commitment to tackling VAWG and our manifesto committed to continuing this fight.</p><p>We are taking steps to renew the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy and will outline our plans soon.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/05/2020 15:03:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1048032

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the £17 million allocated to establish the three-year Violence Against Women and Girls Service Transformation fund has been awarded to (a) Barnsley and (b) South Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	212660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Our Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy sets out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business and over this spending review period, we are providing £100 million of dedicated funding to tackle VAWG.</p><p>VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level by Police and Crime Commissioners, local authorities and health commissioners. The Government’s VAWG National Statement of Expectations encourages such decisions to be taken at a local level and should be driven by local need.</p><p>Our £17 million three-year VAWG Service Transformation Fund, is providing funding to 41 projects across England and Wales to embed local best practice and ensure that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm. All local authorities, Police and Crime Commissioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups were invited to apply, however not every area took up the opportunity to do so. The application process was highly competitive, and decisions were taken to ensure a reasonable spread of funding geographically, by type of VAWG, and by stage of intervention. No funding has been provided through the VAWG Service Transformation Fund directly to Barnsley or South Yorkshire.</p><p>Details of the allocated funding is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/02/2019 13:33:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

990282

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) effect on economic output of violence against women and girls and (b) total spending on public services to prevent and tackle that violence.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	181225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The most recent estimate of the cost to the economy of violence against women and girls was published in 2009 by Sylvia Walby.</p><p>As part of the non-legislative package of work on our Domestic Abuse Bill we will publish an updated estimate of the cost to the economy of violence against women and girls. <br>Over the course of this Parliament the Government is spending £100 million to support victims and survivors of violence against women and girls.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/10/2018 15:41:55 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

819867

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Home Secretary, what steps her Department is taking to tackle violence against Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	121939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>We recognise that some sectors of society can experience multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage or additional barriers to accessing support, including women and girls from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities. The Government’s Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy includes the commitment to promote understanding of the needs of BME women who are victims of VAWG and support commissioners to provide appropriate support.</p><p>VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level as we recognise that Police Crime Commissioners, local authorities and health commissioners are best placed to identify and meet local needs, including those of BME women and girls. However, we also recognise the importance of national standards and in December 2016 we published a VAWG National Statement of Expectations (NSE). The NSE sets out a clear blueprint for local action and is supported by the Commissioning Toolkit to support good local practice. The NSE states that local areas must put the victim at the centre, and have sufficient local specialist support provision, including provision designed specifically to support BME victims, as well as that commissioners should work with local specialist partners, and map out local women’s support groups, including those led by and for BME women. This is in keeping with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p><p>Over this spending review period, we are providing £100m of dedicated VAWG funding, inclusive of £17m through the VAWG Service Transformation Fund. The fund, which runs from April 2017 to March 2020, will support, promote and embed the best local practice and drive major change across all services so that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm. The Service Transformation Fund is funding 41 projects, of which over £6m is being provided across 14 projects that include specific BME provision. In addition, the Home Office has provided £100k to IMKAAN to help the capability and capacity of BME service providers, and over £2m has been provided through the Tampon Tax to projects that specifically fund specific BME focussed provision.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 121941 121942 121943 question first answered 19/01/2018 14:34:59 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

819869

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department allocated to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic VAWG frontline services from the Transformation Fund in the 2016-17 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	121941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>We recognise that some sectors of society can experience multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage or additional barriers to accessing support, including women and girls from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities. The Government’s Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy includes the commitment to promote understanding of the needs of BME women who are victims of VAWG and support commissioners to provide appropriate support.</p><p>VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level as we recognise that Police Crime Commissioners, local authorities and health commissioners are best placed to identify and meet local needs, including those of BME women and girls. However, we also recognise the importance of national standards and in December 2016 we published a VAWG National Statement of Expectations (NSE). The NSE sets out a clear blueprint for local action and is supported by the Commissioning Toolkit to support good local practice. The NSE states that local areas must put the victim at the centre, and have sufficient local specialist support provision, including provision designed specifically to support BME victims, as well as that commissioners should work with local specialist partners, and map out local women’s support groups, including those led by and for BME women. This is in keeping with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p><p>Over this spending review period, we are providing £100m of dedicated VAWG funding, inclusive of £17m through the VAWG Service Transformation Fund. The fund, which runs from April 2017 to March 2020, will support, promote and embed the best local practice and drive major change across all services so that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm. The Service Transformation Fund is funding 41 projects, of which over £6m is being provided across 14 projects that include specific BME provision. In addition, the Home Office has provided £100k to IMKAAN to help the capability and capacity of BME service providers, and over £2m has been provided through the Tampon Tax to projects that specifically fund specific BME focussed provision.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 121939 121942 121943 question first answered 19/01/2018 14:35:00 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris