Question follow-through · 45193

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department plans to use to provide the starting point against which it will measure its progress in halving violence against women and girls.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
22 Apr 2025
Answer
28 Apr 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department plans to use to provide the starting point against which it will measure its progress in halving violence against women and girls.

  2. 22 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Further details on the suite of metrics used to measure progress on our VAWG mission is being discussed with the Office for National Statistics, and will be published in the VAWG Strategy later this year.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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