Written Question·Home Office·UIN 62717

Honour Based Abuse

Tabled: 25 June 2025
Answered: 4 July 2025

Question

Shivani Raja

ConservativeLeicester East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to create a statutory definition of honour-based abuse.

Answer

Jess Phillips
The Government is tackling ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) through its landmark mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. Key to this is ensuring that HBA is well understood by frontline professionals, Government agencies, and impacted com...

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