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Gender Based Violence: Youth Justice

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure youth justice reforms adequately address violence against women and girls.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
18 May 2026
Target answer date
20 May 2026
Answer
27 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure youth justice reforms adequately address violence against women and girls.

  2. 20 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 May 2026

    Answer published

    Tackling violence against women and girls is a core priority for this Government and we are committed to halving it within a decade.This Government is concerned by the growth and scale of online harms, including misogynistic content, and the role that dig...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Youth Justice: Finance

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Young Offenders: Crime Prevention

19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what metrics will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of early intervention programmes in preventing youth offending.

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Sentencing: Young Offenders

19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of short custodial sentences on youth reoffending rates.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Youth Justice: Information Sharing

19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve information-sharing between agencies involved in youth safeguarding and justice.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons: Mental Health Services

20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on mental health provision in prisons.

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Prisons: Overcrowding

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment has been made of trends in the level of prison overcrowding.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Courts: Digital Technology

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on court digitisation; and what steps he is taking to ensure data processing is secure and accurate.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sentencing: Young Offenders

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the answer on 29 July 2026 to question 3142 on youth reoffending rates, what comparative assessment he has made of the reoffending rate for (a) short custodial sentences, (b) longer custodial sentence

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prison Officers: Body Armour and Stun Guns

1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 May 2026 to Question 1123 on Prison Officers: Body Armour and Stun Guns, how many frontline prison officers are employed in roles classified as high-risk for the purposes of the prote

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Prisons: Body Armour

1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of issuing protective body armour to 514 named prison staff.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prison Accommodation

1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 29 May 2026 to Questions 2824 and 2825 on Prisons: Overcrowding, at what annual rate his Department projects delivering the remaining c.10,900 places required to meet the 14,000-place t

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons: Overcrowding

1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are currently held in cells operating above certified normal accommodation; and what proportion of the adult male closed estate is operating above 100% of certified normal accommodation.