Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57899
Domestic Abuse
Tabled: 5 June 2025
Answered: 12 June 2025
Question
Alex Brewer
Liberal Democrat — North East Hampshire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase awareness of (a) coercive control. (b) financial abuse and (c) other forms of non physical domestic abuse.
Answer
Jess PhillipsThe Domestic Abuse Act 2021 introduced a statutory definition of domestic abuse, encompassing not only physical violence but also emotional, coercive, and controlling behaviour, and economic abuse. The statutory guidance on controlling or coercive behavio...
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