Question follow-through · 121640

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what metrics are being used to measure progress on reducing violence against women and girls.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
17 Mar 2026
Target answer date
19 Mar 2026
Answer
23 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what metrics are being used to measure progress on reducing violence against women and girls.

  2. 19 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    We will measure progress against our ambition to halve VAWG is through a headline metric of the combined prevalence estimate of the proportion of people (aged 16 and over) who experienced any of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking in the previous ...

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