Oral QuestionWomen and Equalities

If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 19 January 2023Answered: 25 January 2023

Asked by

Rushanara Ali

LabourBethnal Green and Stepney

Answering Minister

the Minister for Women and Equalities

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.