Written Question·Home Office·UIN 121640

Gender Based Violence

Tabled: 17 March 2026
Answered: 23 March 2026

Question

Shivani Raja

ConservativeLeicester East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what metrics are being used to measure progress on reducing violence against women and girls.

Answer

Jess Phillips
We will measure progress against our ambition to halve VAWG is through a headline metric of the combined prevalence estimate of the proportion of people (aged 16 and over) who experienced any of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking in the previous ...

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