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795920

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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 estimate she has made of the amount of funding provided by any of the constituent organisations of the EU (a) to specialist violence against women and girls organisations and specialist women’s services and (b) for research relating to those issues.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	116240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Protecting women and girls from violence and supporting victims is a key priority for this Government. To support the Government’s commitment to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), we have pledged increased funding of £100 million between now and 2020.</p><p>As part of reviewing delivery against our cross-Government VAWG strategy, we are mapping provision of funding for services to identify areas for further action.</p><p>We value the EU’s contribution to funding VAWG services. Our future cooperation with the EU will be subject to negotiation but we are fully committed to continue working with local commissioners to deliver a secure future for VAWG services.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 116242 question first answered 05/12/2017 14:17:19 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

795922

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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, whether she plans to provide funding equivalent to that currently provided by the EU for violence against women and girls organisations and specialist women’s services, and research relating to those issues after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	116242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Protecting women and girls from violence and supporting victims is a key priority for this Government. To support the Government’s commitment to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), we have pledged increased funding of £100 million between now and 2020.</p><p>As part of reviewing delivery against our cross-Government VAWG strategy, we are mapping provision of funding for services to identify areas for further action.</p><p>We value the EU’s contribution to funding VAWG services. Our future cooperation with the EU will be subject to negotiation but we are fully committed to continue working with local commissioners to deliver a secure future for VAWG services.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 116240 question first answered 05/12/2017 14:17:19 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

782321

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
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 each department responsible for the Government's Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy are contributing to her Department's development of (a) the Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill and (b) the non-legislative package supporting the Bill.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	110925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises that tackling domestic abuse and supporting victims requires a robust cross-government approach. Departments are contributing to the development of both the Domestic Abuse Bill and accompanying non-legislative package through rigorous cross-Departmental discussions overseen by the Violence Against Women and Girls Inter-Ministerial Group, chaired by the Home Secretary.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2017 17:24:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

722305

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
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 assessment the Government has made of the ability of local commissioners to fulfil the aims of the National Statement of Expectations for Violence Against Women and Girls.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	909783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Through our Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy we have published a National Statement of Expectations (NSE) setting out a clear blueprint for local action. We consulted widely with commissioners, the voluntary and community sector and statutory stakeholders in the development of the NSE, which is based on existing best practice. The NSE will help promote better local collaboration and joint leadership, encourage new approaches incorporating early intervention, and establish and embed the best ways to help victims, survivors and their families.</p><p>To support local implementation we have published a Commissioning Toolkit, which provided practical advice and launched the £15 million VAWG Service Transformation fund, which will encourage better collaboration and new, joined-up approaches between local commissioners and specialist VAWG service providers. We are actively developing mechanisms for monitoring implementation of the NSE, working with commissioners and experts from the specialist VAWG sector, to ensure that local services across the country provide the best support for victims and survivors of VAWG.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 24/04/2017 13:59:45 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

711013

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
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 paragraph 5.13 of the Spring Budget 2017, what estimate she has made of how much of £100 million funding for implementing the Government's Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy will be allocated to (a) Leeds East constituency, (b) Leeds and (c) Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	67834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government's Violence against Women and Girls Strategy (VAWG) published in March 2016 committed increased funding of £80 million for VAWG services. A further £20 million was announced in the March 2017 Budget to support organisations that tackle domestic violence and abuse and work is ongoing to integrate this with the already announced funding.</p><p> </p><p>We have provided approximately £2 million of central funding for VAWG services in Yorkshire which has supported refuge provision, Independent Domestic Violence Advisers, Independent Sexual Violence Advisers and Rape Support Centres.</p><p> </p><p>We have also set out a clear blueprint for local action though our new National Statement of Expectations (NSE) and Commissioning Toolkit, which is available to local commissioning bodies and groups. Our move to support through the VAWG Service Transformation Fund will encourage better collaboration and new, joined-up approaches between local commissioners, and with specialist VAWG service providers. This will help promote better collaboration and joint leadership, encourage new approaches incorporating early intervention, and establish and embed the best ways to help victims, survivors and their families.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we will shortly be announcing successful bids in our three year £15 million VAWG Service Transformation Fund.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/03/2017 15:16:47 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

634024

registered interest
date	11/11/2016
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, when the Government plans to publish the National Statement of Expectations to provide a framework for the local commissioning of services relating to violence against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	52629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government published our Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy in March 2016, which announced increased funding of £80 million from 2016 to 2020 to protect women and girls from violence, including support for refuges and other accommodation-based services, funding to national helplines, and from 2017, the launch of the VAWG Transformation Fund.</p><p>We are committed to working across Government to deliver the commitments outlined in the Strategy. The Home Office is leading work across Government to support local commissioning of services to victims and survivors of VAWG. We will set out a clear blueprint for local action though a new National Statement of Expectations and Commissioning Toolkit, which will be available to local commissioning bodies and groups. We currently plan to publish the National Statement of Expectations before the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 17/11/2016 17:06:31 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

511418

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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, which Government minister will be responsible for distributing the £80 million Violence Against Women and Girls Transformation Fund.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	33579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is providing £80 million of dedicated funding up to 2020 to tackle violence against women and girls. This funding will provide core support for refuges and other accommodation-based services, a network of rape support centres and national helplines, and from April 2017 will also include a new Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Service Transformation Fund.</p><p>The VAWG Service Transformation fund will support local programmes which encourage new approaches that incorporate early intervention, establish and embed the best ways to help victims and their families, and prevent perpetrators from re-offending. Criteria for applications to the fund will support these aims. Full details of the how the fund will be administered and the criteria for applications will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33560 question first answered 18/04/2016 11:07:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

511420

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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, in which regions of the UK the £80 million Violence Against Women and Girls Service Transformation Fund will be spent.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	33560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is providing £80 million of dedicated funding up to 2020 to tackle violence against women and girls. This funding will provide core support for refuges and other accommodation-based services, a network of rape support centres and national helplines, and from April 2017 will also include a new Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Service Transformation Fund.</p><p>The VAWG Service Transformation fund will support local programmes which encourage new approaches that incorporate early intervention, establish and embed the best ways to help victims and their families, and prevent perpetrators from re-offending. Criteria for applications to the fund will support these aims. Full details of the how the fund will be administered and the criteria for applications will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33579 question first answered 18/04/2016 11:07:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

475826

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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 the timetable is for production of the new violence against women and girls strategy.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	31212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government published a new Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need and inspire confidence in the Criminal Justice System to bring more perpetrators to justice as well as doing more to rehabilitate offenders.</p><p>The strategy committed £80 million between 2016 and 2020 to protect women and girls from violence. This increased funding will help to deliver our goal to work with local commissioners to deliver a secure future for rape support centres, refuges and FGM and Forced Marriage Units, whilst driving a major change across all services which promotes early intervention and prevention.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 17/03/2016 12:07:55 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

456179

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2016 to Question 24958, how much funding the Government allocated for the provision of (a) domestic abuse services, (b) female rape support centres, (c) independent domestic violence advisers (IDVAs) and (d) independent sexual violence advisers (ISVAs) in each year from 2009-10 to 2015-16; and how many (i) rape support centres, (ii) IDVAs and (iii) ISVAs were supported with that funding in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	28882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The previous Government provided £40 million of dedicated funding for domestic and sexual violence services between 2011 and 2015 equating to £10 million per year. This funding was extended until April 2016, supplemented by an additional £10 million for refuges, a £3.5 million fund to boost the provision of domestic violence services including refuges, and an uplift of £7 million for victims of sexual violence and child sexual abuse.</p><p>This funding included £1.7 million per year to part-fund 87 Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs), an increase from £860,000 in 2009-10 and 2010-11 which supported 43 and 44 posts respectively, and £2.5 million per year to part-fund 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs), an increase from £1.5 million in 2009-10 and £2.3 million in 2010-11 which supported 63 and 114 posts respectively.</p><p>While it is not fully possible to disaggregate funding for domestic abuse services from support for wider violence against women and girls services, the attached table provides a detailed breakdown of funding to support the provision of IDVAs, ISVAs and Rape Support Centres for each year from 2009/10 to 2015/16.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 08/03/2016 16:14:12 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 28882 IDVA, ISVA and Rape Support Centre funding.doc title Funding for IDVAs, ISVAs and Rape Support Centres
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq