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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2024-03-20more like thismore than 2024-03-20
answering body
Ministry of Justice more like this
answering dept id 54 more like this
answering dept short name Justice more like this
answering dept sort name Justice more like this
hansard heading Gender Based Violence: Criminal Proceedings more like this
house id 1 remove filter
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reform the criminal justice system to help tackle violence against women and girls. more like this
tabling member constituency Sefton Central more like this
tabling member printed
Bill Esterson more like this
uin 902215 more like this
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answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2024-03-26more like thismore than 2024-03-26
answer text <p>This Government has introduced a comprehensive legislative framework to prevent violence against women, including our landmark Domestic Abuse Act 2021.</p><p>We have pioneered the creation of new offences including coercive control, non-fatal strangulation and intimate image abuse; more than doubled the number of adult rape cases reaching court compared to when we commissioned our End-to-End Rape Review; and made sure that sentences for adult rape are almost 40% longer than they were in 2010.</p><p>And through our Sentencing Bill, we will ensure that rapists and serious sexual offenders spend the entirety of their custodial sentence behind bars, without possibility of parole.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Newbury more like this
answering member printed Laura Farris more like this
grouped question UIN
902214 more like this
902220 more like this
question first answered
less than 2024-03-26T18:26:02.907Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-26T18:26:02.907Z
answering member
4826
label Biography information for Laura Farris more like this
tabling member
4061
label Biography information for Bill Esterson more like this