Question follow-through · 105464

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for reviewing the legal framework for domestic abuse.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 13 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 15 Jan 2026
Answer: 20 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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

Recorded timeline

13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for reviewing the legal framework for domestic abuse.
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office is conducting a scoping review into the legal framework of domestic abuse to ensure it captures the experience of adolescents, which will conclude this year.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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