Oral QuestionMinistry of Defence

What steps he is taking to support defence personnel affected by domestic abuse.

Tabled: 18 March 2025Answered: 24 March 2025

Asked by

Josh Babarinde

Liberal DemocratEastbourne

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Defence

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Veterans and People (Al Carns)

As I mentioned earlier, we are moving forward with our women and girls taskforce to drive progress on the Government’s commitment to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. Last year, we launched the Ministry of Defence’s domestic abuse action plan and trained more than 700 service police in specialist domestic abuse and coercive control training, and now everybody in the military—every man and woman across the armed forces—goes through unacceptable sexual behaviour training.