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Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy
Wednesday 21st January 2026

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Lords Chamber
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My Lords, is the Minister aware that the four Children’s Commissioners of the four parts of the United Kingdom wrote a report several years ago saying that this country is the most punitive of all European countries towards children?

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