Oral Question·Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
“What recent discussions he has had with business representative bodies on the covid-19 outbreak.”
Tabled: 10 June 2020Answered: 16 June 2020
Asked by
Shabana Mahmood
Labour — Birmingham Ladywood
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Jess Phillips)
We will deliver a cross-Government violence against women and girls strategy, and we are already taking significant steps to ensure that VAWG is treated as the national emergency that it is. That includes embedding the first domestic abuse specialists in 999 control rooms under Raneem’s law, starting in five police forces, and further extending the roll-out of domestic abuse protection orders to Cleveland and north Wales.