Oral QuestionDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 10 June 2020Answered: 16 June 2020

Asked by

Bob Blackman

ConservativeHarrow East

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Answer from Hansard

The Solicitor General (Lucy Rigby)

Earlier this month, we marked International Women’s Day, and it was very moving to hear the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Yardley (Jess Phillips), again record in this House the names of women and girls who were killed in the past year. The scale of violence against women and girls in this country is completely intolerable, which is why, under our plan for change, this Government have already taken concrete steps to tackle it, including the introduction of Raneem’s law to put domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms.