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1547475

registered interest
date	01/12/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to respond to correspondence sent by email on 7 September 2022, 4 October and 1 November from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL13106.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	101041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>A reply was sent to the hon. Member for Glasgow East by the Minister for Work and Pensions (Lords), on behalf of the Secretary of State, on 2 December 2022.</p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/12/2022 12:19:34 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546801

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government took to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls on 25 November.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a government priority. VAWG is unacceptable and preventable.</p><p>To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Home Secretary visited Refuge – a charity providing specialist services to victims and survivors of domestic abuse. The Home Secretary saw, first-hand, the National Domestic Violence Helpline the Home Office funds, which offers support and advice to victims and survivors of domestic abuse.</p><p>I visited Project Foundation at the Hampshire Fire and Police Headquarters to learn more about the methods they are using to disrupt and address abusive behaviour, whilst also protecting victims and survivors from further harm.</p><p>In the week leading up to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we launched the VAWG Support and Specialist Services competition for ‘by and for’ services to ensure support is in place for victims and survivors which best serves their needs. This will award up to £8.4 million over two years.</p><p>The ‘Enough’ campaign is our national communications campaign to challenge the harmful behaviours that exist within wider society, educate young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensure victims can recognise abuse and receive support. To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, it collaborated with influencers and commercial partners to share pledges in support of the day via social media and public relations activity.</p><p>In relation to tackling violence against women and girls internationally, the Foreign Secretary hosted a conference on ‘sexual violence in conflict’. Over 1,000 delegates from over 57 countries came together to reaffirm their commitment to preventing sexual violence in conflict. At the conference, the UK launched a new three-year Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Strategy, announcing further funding of up to £12.5 million to deliver its objectives.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 07/12/2022 12:01:44 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546802

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence
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 she has made with Cabinet colleagues of trends in the level of violence against women and girls in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>Violence Against Women and Girls crimes are often hidden and can go unreported to the police.</p><p>This means that police recorded crime data do not provide a reliable measure of trends in levels of Violence Against Women and Girls. Recently, levels of reporting have gone up. This may in part be due to improvements in police recording practices, but also simply because more victims and survivors are coming forward. We want to see these increase so that more victims and survivors can be supported, and so more perpetrators are brought to justice.</p><p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales provides a more reliable measure of prevalence and covers crimes that may not have been reported to the police. In the year to March 2022,</p><ul><li>5.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2022.</li><li>2.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 were victims of sexual assault</li><li>0.4% of adults aged 16 to 59 had experienced rape, including attempts.</li><li>4.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 had experienced stalking,</li></ul><p>There were no significant change compared with the year ending March 2020, the last period for which data were published.</p><p>For domestic abuse, rape and stalking, longer-term trends have also remained relatively stable. Whereas, sexual offences have seen fluctuations with no clear trends.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/12/2022 12:52:23 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546803

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the proportion of the foreign aid budget allocated to programmes which prevent violence against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs has frequent discussions with the Minister for Development on the allocation of the foreign aid budget. The UK will focus spend according to the priorities set out in the International Development Strategy, which includes women and girls, while maximising the best value for money and our flexibility to respond to new or emerging priority issues. Last month, the UK hosted an international conference to drive urgent action to prevent sexual violence in conflict and announced £12.5 million new funding for this. We will be launching a new International Women and Girls Strategy in 2023.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 13/12/2022 17:20:45 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546804

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls strategy published in March 2022, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the recommendations of that report.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is part of the cross-government Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, and is working with the Home Office and Department for Education to deliver the ambitions of the recommendations from our Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/12/2022 16:24:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546805

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the availability of mental health services for women and girls who experience domestic and sexual violence.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>We continue to work with colleagues across government on this issue. The NHS Long Term Plan commits an additional £2.3 billion a year for mental health services in England by 2023/24 to allow a further two million people, including victims of domestic and sexual violence, to access National Health Service-funded mental health support.</p><p>NHS England commissions 48 sexual assault referral centres (SARCs), which are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to all victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse. The Department is working with NHS England to support the integration of SARC services within the local sexual assault and abuse care pathway to ensure that the needs of survivors of sexual exploitation are addressed. We are also working with the Home Office, which is investing up to £7.5 million over three years to implement domestic abuse interventions in healthcare settings in England.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 08/12/2022 11:34:06 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546806

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Development Aid: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of his Department's foreign aid budget was used for programmes which prevent violence against women and girls in the 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>Ending violence against women and girls remains a top priority for the Government. Spend for 2022-23 is not yet available, the FCDO's latest estimate of its overall ODA spending for 2022-23 is £7.548 million. In 2021, the UK spent £27.6 million on bilateral funding to end violence against women and girls. Multilateral spend for 2021 is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 07/12/2022 15:42:13 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546807

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports of unsafe areas made to the StreetSafe service have (a) been made and (b) resulted in action aimed at making people feel safer in that area.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>Since the StreetSafe online tool was launched on 2 September 2021 to date (1 December 2022), 22,939 reports have been submitted. The Home Office does not hold information on how many reports have resulted in action. Addressing concerns reported via the tool is an operational matter for the Police and other agencies, such as Local Authorities.</p><p>StreetSafe has been developed in cooperation with the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). It is managed by the NPCC Digital Public Contact Programme, funded by the Home Office. I can confirm that enhancing StreetSafe to enable reporting of public transport/infrastructure is being considered by policing as a high priority item and timescales will be agreed with the Home Office as part of the Programme’s Grant funding process for 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 99957 question first answered 22/12/2022 14:40:06 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines previous answer version 40825 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546808

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism: Social Media
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 the research paper entitled Super- (and hyper-) posters on extremist forums, published in the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism on 30 July 2022, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of that paper's findings; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government draws on a broad range of analysis and evidence to understand the scale and nature of the online terrorism threat and inform our approach to tackling terrorist and extremist exploitation of the internet.</p><p>The authors of the report have presented their research to Home Office officials. The findings will help us further increase our understanding of the role of extremist networks in creating permissive and radicalising online environments. Tackling terrorist ideologies and radicalising influences is a core component of HMG’s Prevent strategy.</p><p>We are committed to working with domestic and international partners, civil society organisations, tech companies, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and others to review the operation of algorithms and other online features that may drive users towards terrorist and violent extremist content.</p><p>We do not believe a Written Ministerial or Oral statement is necessary at this time.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 07/12/2022 16:49:04 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546809

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unique visits have been recorded at the Enough campaign website; and how many and what proportion of these visits were (a) organic and (b) paid for in each month for which records are available since that website's launch.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>‘Enough’ is the UK Government's landmark campaign to tackle violence against women and girls. It is one of the key commitments in the government’s Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy and uses a range of communications channels to help deliver a generational shift in attitudes and behaviours.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign comprises three strands:</p><ol><li>Challenging perpetrators – to ensure bystanders know how to challenge abuse when they see it, as well as increasing the unacceptability of VAWG behaviours;</li><li>Educating young people – to establish healthy attitudes and behaviours around VAWG; and</li><li>Supporting victims – to ensure they know how and where to access support and, where appropriate, to report their experiences.</li></ol><p> </p><p>‘Enough’ was developed in close consultation with over 40 organisations and academics working on this issue. Results from the first phase of campaign activity demonstrated strong progress towards achieving the campaign’s ambitions. A significant number of campaign recognisers said they took action as a result of seeing the campaign, and the campaign is deepening people’s understanding of what constitutes abuse and how to take action safely if they witness VAWG. The campaign website has driven over 2,000 interactions with support services and assisted people to report abuse to the police.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign receives high levels of public and private sector support from police forces, local councils, VAWG sector organisations, and national businesses including Uber, Tesco, Mitchells &amp; Butlers pubs, Fitness First and the English Football League.</p><p> </p><p>From the Enough campaign website’s launch on 1 March 2022 to 30 November, analytics indicate there have been over 133,000 sessions on the site.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign has had paid marketing activity live in March 2022, October, November and December 2022. In March 2022, 65% of traffic was driven directly from paid activity and 35% was organic. During October (when paid activity was re-launched on 26th) paid activity drove 59% of traffic and organic drove 41%. In November, 67% of traffic was driven directly by paid activity and 33% was organic. December statistics are not yet consolidated.</p><p> </p><p>However, these figures only capture the individuals who have actively consented to cookies, meaning they are only indicative of the total figure. It is probable the number is significantly higher and the split between organic and paid could be different.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 22/12/2022 16:12:17 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines previous answer version 40828 answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden