Written Question·Home Office·UIN 112235

Honour Based Abuse

Tabled: 10 February 2026

Answered: 23 February 2026

Named Day

Question

Mr Richard Holden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to introduce a statutory definition of honour-based abuse; what progress she has made on introducing such a definition; and if she will publish a timetable for bringing forward necessar

Answer

Jess Phillips

The VAWG Strategy, published on 18 December, set out clear action to tackle ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) including legislating to introduce multi-agency statutory guidance and an accompanying statutory definition of HBA. The Government will introduce this s...

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