Oral QuestionDepartment for International Development

If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 28 June 2018Answered: 4 July 2018

Asked by

Mr Alistair Carmichael

Liberal DemocratOrkney and Shetland

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for International Development

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Alex Davies-Jones)

The scale of violence against women and girls in our country is intolerable. The Ministry of Justice has already taken action by: launching a pilot of domestic abuse protection orders in selected areas; introducing new criminal offences that capture creating sexually explicit deepfakes, and spiking; announcing family court reform, such as expanding our Pathfinder programme in the family court; and commissioning the independent review of criminal courts in order to improve court timeliness and provide justice for victims.