Question follow-through · 65041

Sexual Offences: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that survivors of sexual assault are (a) kept informed of the progress of cases and (b) provided with appropriate (i) safeguarding and (ii) support.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
4 Jul 2025
Target answer date
9 Jul 2025
Answer
9 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that survivors of sexual assault are (a) kept informed of the progress of cases and (b) provided with appropriate (i) safeguarding and (ii) support.

  2. 9 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    We expect sexual violence to be treated seriously by all police forces from the point of disclosure, every victim to be treated with dignity and every investigation and prosecution to be conducted thoroughly and professionally.Baroness Casey’s 2023 review...

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