Question follow-through · 900769

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking with police forces to tackle violence against women and girls.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 15 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 21 Oct 2024
Answer: 21 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking with police forces to tackle violence against women and girls.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
This Government is determined to treat violence against women and girls as the national emergency it is and we have already taken significant steps to strengthen the police response to these devastating crimes. As part of Raneem’s Law we will put domestic...

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