Question follow-through · 57899
Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase awareness of (a) coercive control. (b) financial abuse and (c) other forms of non physical domestic abuse.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase awareness of (a) coercive control. (b) financial abuse and (c) other forms of non physical domestic abuse.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 introduced a statutory definition of domestic abuse, encompassing not only physical violence but also emotional, coercive, and controlling behaviour, and economic abuse. The statutory guidance on controlling or coercive behavio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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