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1701123

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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 steps he is taking to (a) assess and (b) improve the effectiveness of existing legal measures designed to protect (a) minority ethnic women and (b) all people from domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	21775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The government has taken a number of measures to strengthen legislation and protections for victims of domestic abuse.</p><p>This includes the measures set out in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which is helping transform our response to victims and bring perpetrators to justice.</p><p>Controlling or Coercive Behaviour within an intimate or family relationship was made a criminal offence under the Serious Crime Act 2015. The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 removed the requirement for the parties to be ‘living together’ for the offence to occur, meaning it applies to intimate partners, ex-partners or family members, regardless of whether the victim and perpetrator live together.</p><p>The Domestic Abuse statutory guidance contains detailed sections setting out specifically how victims from ethnic minority backgrounds may experience additional barriers to identifying, disclosing, seeking help or reporting abuse.</p><p>The government continues to offer migrant victims in the UK who have, or last had, permission to be in the UK under the family Immigration Rules to apply for access to the Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession (MVDAC).</p><p>The government will continue to work with the police and criminal justice agencies to ensure the law is used to maximum effect to protect victims of domestic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 24/04/2024 16:57:29 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1676827

registered interest
date	11/12/2023
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 4 April (HL6672 and HL6673), and further to the remarks by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 12 July (HL Deb cols 1727–1730), whether they have now published (1) their response to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s report Safety before status: the solutions, published on 13 December 2022, (2) their decision on the reservation on Article 59 of the Istanbul Convention, and (3) the migrant victims’ protocol.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL1069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s report <em>Safety Before Status: The Solutions</em> was published in July 2023 and can be found at Gov.UK.</p><p> </p><p>The reservation on Article 59 of the Istanbul Convention will be kept under review as policies which address support for migrant victims of domestic abuse develop. Official advice will be provided to Ministers on the reservation, in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Migrant Victims Protocol is in the final stages of development. The Department expects this to be published in early 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 29/12/2023 14:18:10 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1674065

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
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, if his Department will undertake a post legislative review of section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 to help assess the potential effectiveness of the introduction of an offence of controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship in (a) preventing, (b) prosecuting and (c) punishing coercive control.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	4534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>The Department works closely with and promotes organisations that seek to improve the employer's response to domestic abuse, including with the Employers Initiative on Domestic Abuse (EIDA) and the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant (EDAC).</p><p>In addition, through the Employers Engagement Fund, The Survivors Trust has been awarded funding in 2023/24 and 2024/25 to work with employers to raise awareness of domestic abuse, train their employees on how to identify, better understand and respond to domestic abuse disclosures in the workplace.</p><p>Our national communications campaign ‘Enough’ was launched in 2022, to challenge the harmful behaviours that exist within wider society. Campaign advertising has reached millions of individuals across England and Wales, and thousands of clicks on the website through to organisations that support victims of these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 4529 4530 4531 question first answered 14/12/2023 15:20:07 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1672951

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
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 steps he is taking to tackle domestic violence.
tabling member constituency	Rugby
tabling member printed	Mark Pawsey
uin	900294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>Domestic abuse is an abhorrent crime and tackling it remains a top priority for this Government.</p><p>We remain committed to delivering our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy and complimentary Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. We have doubled funding for the National Domestic Abuse Helpline and added violence against women and girls - including domestic abuse - to the revised Strategic Policing Requirement elevating it to a national threat for police forces to respond to accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 27/11/2023 15:53:34 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4052 label Biography information for Mark Pawsey

1667895

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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, if she will introduce measures to help victims of domestic violence retrieve their possessions safely from their ex-partner's properties in circumstances when the police will not intervene.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>It is important that police officers recognise and understand domestic abuse in all its forms. Post-separation abuse is an established risk factor for homicide. The College of Policing authorised professional practice guidance is clear that officers should offer assistance to victims intending to recover property from a residence to ensure this process is carried out safely.</p><p>Domestic abuse training plays a crucial role in police officers’ understanding and response to domestic abuse. The specialist Domestic Abuse Matters programme developed by the College of Policing and domestic abuse charities, has been delivered to the majority of forces to date. The Government is also now funding the rollout of the training to those forces who have yet to undertake it. It is, however, crucial that police forces continue to remain updated with domestic abuse training, particularly for new officers.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 13/11/2023 14:49:52 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1640056

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
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, how many Domestic Violence Protection (a) Orders and (b) Notices were issued by each Magistrates Court in England and Wales in the last 21 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	186757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>DVPO (domestic violence protection order) and DVPN (domestic violence protection notice) data are not recorded by magistrates’ courts.</p><p>His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services (HMICRFS) collect DVPN/O data and this has been published annually by the ONS here <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">Domestic abuse in England and Wales - Appendix tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a> for 2016-2018 and <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fdatasets%2Fdomesticabuseandthecriminaljusticesystemappendixtables&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJoshua.Davies33%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cfa4cc56218a8490897f108db5dbc829a%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638206836441990842%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IJalgoedwqLsfe2cW%2FdA5AvcoJnoDKR7XLSyV%2F2FzOw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Domestic abuse and the criminal justice system - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a> for annual data since 2019.</p><p>Prior to 2017 data was published directly by HMICFRS here <a href="https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/police-forces/data/peel-assessments/" target="_blank">PEEL assessments data - His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services (justiceinspectorates.gov.uk)</a> with 2015 being the first year the data was published. In 2015 only data on DVPOs issued are available. Not all police forces could provide data to HMICFRS in each data year and so the figures in the below table may underestimate the number of DVPOs and DVPNs granted. Data published by HMICFRS was published in 12-month periods from July-June. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publication tracks DVPO/Ns issued in a 12-month period from April-March. A breakdown of these figures can be seen in the below table.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of Domestic Violence Protection Orders and Notices issued</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>DVPOs issued</p></td><td><p>DVPNs issued</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>HMICFRS published - 12 months leading to June 30th</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3,813</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>3,706</p></td><td><p>4,358</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>ONS published - 12 months leading to March 31st</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>3,698</p></td><td><p>4,017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>4,878</p></td><td><p>4,219</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5,859</p></td><td><p>4,349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>6,267</p></td><td><p>4,468</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>7,995</p></td><td><p>10,046</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>10,167</p></td><td><p>11,336</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/06/2023 14:00:07 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1640057

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
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 Office, how many Domestic Violence Protection (a) Orders and (b) Notices were issued in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	186758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services (HMICRFS) collect DVPN/O data and this has been published annually by the ONS here <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">Domestic abuse in England and Wales - Appendix tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a> for 2016-2018 and <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fdatasets%2Fdomesticabuseandthecriminaljusticesystemappendixtables&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJoshua.Davies33%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cfa4cc56218a8490897f108db5dbc829a%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638206836441990842%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IJalgoedwqLsfe2cW%2FdA5AvcoJnoDKR7XLSyV%2F2FzOw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Domestic abuse and the criminal justice system - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a> for annual data since 2019.</p><p>Prior to 2017 data was published directly by HMICFRS here <a href="https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/police-forces/data/peel-assessments/" target="_blank">PEEL assessments data - His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services (justiceinspectorates.gov.uk)</a> with 2015 being the first year the data was published. In 2015 only data on Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs) are available. Not all police forces could provide data to HMICFRS in each data year and so the figures in the below table may underestimate the number of DVPOs and Domestic Violence Protection Notices (DVPNs) granted. Data published by HMICFRS was published in 12-month periods from July-June. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publication tracks DVPO/Ns issued in a 12-month period from April-March. A breakdown of these figures can be seen in the below table.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of Domestic Violence Protection Orders and Notices issued</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>DVPOs issued</p></td><td><p>DVPNs issued</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>HMICFRS published - 12 months leading to June 30th</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3,813</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>3,706</p></td><td><p>4,358</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>ONS published - 12 months leading to March 31st</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>3,698</p></td><td><p>4,017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>4,878</p></td><td><p>4,219</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5,859</p></td><td><p>4,349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>6,267</p></td><td><p>4,468</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>7,995</p></td><td><p>10,046</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>10,167</p></td><td><p>11,336</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 05/06/2023 11:02:11 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1611147

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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 steps she is taking to encourage people to report domestic violence against women.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	180776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>Domestic abuse is a horrific crime and improving the response to domestic abuse is a key priority. As highlighted in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan 2022, we want to make it easier for victims to ask for help and report crimes.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that victims know domestic abuse will be taken seriously. Significant progress has been made by the National Police Chiefs Council and College of Policing since the 2021 HMICFRS report on policing of VAWG, including a Framework standardising a policing focus on prevention, action to pursue perpetrators and help build women’s trust in policing.</p><p>To further strengthen the police response to disclosures of domestic abuse, we have committed up to £3.3 million up to 2025 to bolster and encourage the uptake of the Domestic Abuse Matters training in police forces. And VAWG (including domestic abuse) has been added to the Strategic Policing Requirement (SPR), meaning it is set out as a national threat for forces to respond to alongside other threats such as terrorism, serious and organised crime and child sexual abuse.</p><p>To make it easier for victims to ask for help in their local communities, we are now piloting the Ask for ANI (Action Needed Immediately) codeword scheme in 18 Jobcentres across the UK. The scheme has been available in participating pharmacies since January 2021. A postcode checker has been published on GOV.UK where victims can check for their nearest Ask for ANI location.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 25/04/2023 14:36:10 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1610186

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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 steps her Department is taking to ensure that survivors of domestic abuse are supported to report that abuse to the police.
tabling member constituency	Watford
tabling member printed	Dean Russell
uin	180319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Domestic abuse is a horrific crime and improving the response to domestic abuse is a key priority. That is why we introduced our landmark Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (the Act), which will provide further protections to the millions of people who experience domestic abuse and strengthen measures to bring perpetrators to justice, as well as transform the support we give to victims ensuring they have the protection they deserve.</p><p>We expect police to treat all victims of domestic abuse with the sensitivity and compassion they deserve, which plays an important part in encouraging victims and survivors to report. Therefore, to strengthen the police response to domestic abuse and as part of our commitment in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan 2022 to support the development and further rollout of the Domestic Abuse Matters training, we have committed up to £3.3 million up to 2025 to bolster and encourage the uptake of this training in forces. We will beprioritising funding for those forces who have yet to undertake the training. As part of this commitment, we are also funding the development of a newmodule of the training that is targeted at officers investigating domestic abuse offences to enable further improvement in police responses to domesticabuse incidents.</p><p>The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS), also known as Clare’s Law enables the police to disclose information to a victim or potential victim of domestic abuse about their partner’s or ex-partner’s previous abusive or violent offending either following a request for information by a victim, potential victim or an associated third party or following the police being in receipt of information requiring a disclosure. We have recently commenced section 77 of the Act which places the guidance which underpins the DVDS into statute and published updated guidance ahead of this. This places a duty on the police to apply the guidance unless there is good reason not to and will strengthen the visibility and consistent operation of the scheme. The guidance also makes clear that safeguarding the victim or potential victim is, at all times, a priority.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 20/04/2023 09:10:56 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell

1606111

registered interest
date	21/03/2023
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to publish their response to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s report Safety before status: the solutions, which was due in February.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL6672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Tackling violence against women and girls is a government priority. We are committed to supporting victims of abuse, regardless of their immigration status.</p><p>The Home Office is grateful to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner for publishing the ‘Safety Before Status: The Solutions’ report and to the Commissioner’s team and external partners for researching the vital issue of support for migrant victims and survivors of domestic abuse.</p><p>We will continue to engage with the Commissioner’s office on recommendations set out in the report, and across government. We have already begun to take forward work that stems from some of the recommendations.</p><p>We are giving detailed consideration to the findings of this research in conjunction with the external evaluation of the Home Office funded Support for Migrant Victims Scheme pilot (SMV) and considering the wider policies affecting migrant victims and survivors of domestic abuse. Our official response will be published as soon as is practicable. In the meantime, we continue to provide £1.4 million per annum to fund support for all migrant victims of domestic abuse.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL6673 question first answered 04/04/2023 11:40:16 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester