Written Question·Home Office·UIN 93705

Mothers: Homicide

Tabled: 24 November 2025
Answered: 3 December 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to help reduce instances of matricide.

Answer

Jess Phillips
The scale of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is intolerable, and this Government has set out a mission to halve these crimes over the next decade.The Home Office is working to develop the evidence base on domestic abuse related deaths by funding t...
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