Written Question·Home Office·UIN 109755

Domestic Abuse

Tabled: 29 January 2026
Answered: 5 February 2026

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

LabourPoole

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the definition of coercive and controlling behaviour within the Serious Crime Act 2015 to include extremist groups, cults and ga

Answer

Sarah Jones
Controlling or coercive behaviour (CCB) is an insidious form of domestic abuse. The CCB legislative framework was introduced in 2015 and was explicitly designed to address patterns of behaviour within relationships where the perpetrator and victim are “pe...

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