Oral Question·Home Office
“What steps her Department plans to take to tackle violence against women and girls. ”
Tabled: 23 July 2024Answered: 29 July 2024
Asked by
Tracy Gilbert
Labour — Edinburgh North and Leith
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for the Home Department
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Yvette Cooper)
For far too long, violence against women and girls has been treated as an inevitability, rather than the national emergency that it is. Our mission is for the whole country to halve violence against women and girls within a decade. That has to start with drastically improving the policing and criminal justice response.