Oral QuestionAttorney General

“What steps she is taking to ensure effective prosecution of economic crime.”

Tabled: 17 March 2022Answered: 24 March 2022

Answering Minister

the Attorney General

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.