Written Question·Home Office·UIN 105005
Gender Based Violence: Missing Persons
Tabled: 12 January 2026
Answered: 19 January 2026
Question
Michelle Welsh
Labour — Sherwood Forest
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of including missing people in future work to tackle violence against women and girls.
Answer
Jess PhillipsViolence 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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