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I hope this will reassure the noble Baroness that the current legal framework for addressing violence and harassment in the workplace is both robust and comprehensive. The Government remain committed to raising awareness on this important issue. Tackling violence against women and girls is a top priority for this Government. Our manifesto included the ambition to halve it in a decade. We are going further than before to deliver a cross-government, transformative approach to halve violence against women and girls, underpinned by a new violence against women and girls strategy, which we hope to publish sometime in September. The principles of preventive action, which are captured in the noble Baroness’s amendment, are key to ending violence against women and girls. The Government will continue to have conversations with the noble Baroness and others on this important issue as we pursue our target of halving violence against women and girls in the next decade.