Question follow-through · 105005

Gender Based Violence: Missing Persons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of including missing people in future work to tackle violence against women and girls.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
14 Jan 2026
Answer
19 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 12 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of including missing people in future work to tackle violence against women and girls.

  2. 14 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 19 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Violence against women and girls is a national emergency, and we’ve made it our mission to halve it in a decade. We are deploying the full power of the state through our VAWG Strategy, which was published on 18th December 2025.Every missing person case de...

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