Written Question·Home Office·UIN 908455

Domestic Abuse

Tabled: 17 March 2026

Answered: 23 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Kirith Entwistle

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle coercive control by ex-partners.

Answer

Jess Phillips

Controlling or coercive behaviour is an insidious and often under-recognised form of domestic abuse.To improve the multi-agency response to coercive or controlling behaviour and reflect latest policy and practice, we will update statutory guidance by the ...

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