Written Question·Home Office·UIN 76586

Asylum: Gender Based Violence

Tabled: 11 September 2025

Answered: 16 September 2025

Named Day

Question

Kirsty Blackman

Scottish National Party — Aberdeen North

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the criminalisation of asylum-seeking survivors of violence against women and girls.

Answer

Jess Phillips

Asylum-seeking victims of VAWG must be treated as victims, first and foremost. We recognise the challenges asylum-seeking victims of VAWG can face and the VAWG Strategy will include more detail on our approach to criminalisation of victims of VAWG. It is ...

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