Written Question·Home Office·UIN 105004

Gender Based Violence: Missing Persons

Tabled: 12 January 2026
Answered: 19 January 2026

Question

Michelle Welsh

LabourSherwood Forest

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of violence against women and girls on the number of people going missing.

Answer

Jess Phillips
Violence against women and girls is a national emergency, and we’ve made it our mission to halve it in a decade. We are deploying the full power of the state through our VAWG Strategy, which was published on 18th December 2025.Every missing person case de...

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