Question follow-through · 62717

Honour Based Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to create a statutory definition of honour-based abuse.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 25 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 30 Jun 2025
Answer: 4 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to create a statutory definition of honour-based abuse.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government is tackling ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) through its landmark mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. Key to this is ensuring that HBA is well understood by frontline professionals, Government agencies, and impacted com...

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