Oral QuestionAttorney General

What steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates in cases of violence against women and girls.

Tabled: 13 March 2025Answered: 20 March 2025

Asked by

Matt Turmaine

LabourWatford

Answering Minister

the Solicitor General

Answer from Hansard

The Solicitor General (Lucy Rigby)

Earlier this month, we marked International Women’s Day, and it was very moving to hear the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Yardley (Jess Phillips), again record in this House the names of women and girls who were killed in the past year. The scale of violence against women and girls in this country is completely intolerable, which is why, under our plan for change, this Government have already taken concrete steps to tackle it, including the introduction of Raneem’s law to put domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms.