Question follow-through · 112235

Honour Based Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to introduce a statutory definition of honour-based abuse; what progress she has made on introducing such a definition; and if she will publish a timetable for bringing forward necessar

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 10 Feb 2026
Target answer date: 23 Feb 2026
Answer: 23 Feb 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to introduce a statutory definition of honour-based abuse; what progress she has made on introducing such a definition; and if she will publish a timetable for bringing forward necessar
23 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 2026
Answer published
The VAWG Strategy, published on 18 December, set out clear action to tackle ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) including legislating to introduce multi-agency statutory guidance and an accompanying statutory definition of HBA. The Government will introduce this s...

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