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Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

Tabled: 5 December 2024
Answered: 11 December 2024
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Question

Kirith Entwistle

LabourBolton North East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the support available to people who have left coercive relationships but continue to be subject to attempts at (a) financial and (b) other contro

Answer

Jess Phillips
Controlling and coercive behaviour is a particularly insidious form of domestic abuse, which can continue post-separation. It is often part of a wider pattern of abuse, including violent, sexual or economic abuse.Since 5th April 2023, following the passag...

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