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Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to help protect funding streams for specialist domestic abuse services.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
6 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to help protect funding streams for specialist domestic abuse services.

  2. 6 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Supporting victims and witnesses remains a priority focus for the Department and ministers. Collectively we are committed to the Government’s pledge to halve Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in a decade.As such, I have decided to protect VAWG victi...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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