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Written Question
Domestic Abuse: Death
Monday 19th December 2022

Asked by: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Domestic Homicides and Suspected Victim Suicides 2021-2022 Year 2 Report, published in December 2022, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the recommendations of that report that relate to her Department.

Answered by Sarah Dines

The Home Office have continued to build our evidence base on domestic homicides and suicides linked to domestic abuse through funding the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), College of Policing and Vulnerability and Knowledge Practice Programme (VKPP) Domestic Homicide Project. The Home Office fully supports the recommendations made in the project’s second year report. The recommendations for the Home Office reflect our own priorities to implement Domestic Homicide Review reform, as committed to in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. We will work with the NPCC and VKPP Domestic Homicide Project team to monitor the implementation of the recommendations made within the report.

In October the College of Policing published a new homicide prevention framework for forces and policing partners to reduce crimes that can lead to homicide. This homicide prevention framework brings together the best available evidence to support police forces to analyse and understand their crime problems and drivers of homicide, to develop and implement effective interventions and tactics, and to identify where partnership support is needed. It has been developed jointly with the NPCC and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) as part of the national homicide prevention strategy.


Written Question
Domestic Abuse: Death
Monday 19th December 2022

Asked by: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Domestic Homicides and Suspected Victim Suicides 2021-2022 Year 2 Report, published in December 2022, what steps she plans to take to monitor the uptake of that report's recommendations.

Answered by Sarah Dines

The Home Office have continued to build our evidence base on domestic homicides and suicides linked to domestic abuse through funding the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), College of Policing and Vulnerability and Knowledge Practice Programme (VKPP) Domestic Homicide Project. The Home Office fully supports the recommendations made in the project’s second year report. The recommendations for the Home Office reflect our own priorities to implement Domestic Homicide Review reform, as committed to in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. We will work with the NPCC and VKPP Domestic Homicide Project team to monitor the implementation of the recommendations made within the report.

In October the College of Policing published a new homicide prevention framework for forces and policing partners to reduce crimes that can lead to homicide. This homicide prevention framework brings together the best available evidence to support police forces to analyse and understand their crime problems and drivers of homicide, to develop and implement effective interventions and tactics, and to identify where partnership support is needed. It has been developed jointly with the NPCC and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) as part of the national homicide prevention strategy.


Written Question
Homicide
Monday 19th December 2022

Asked by: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Domestic Homicides and Suspected Victim Suicides 2021-2022 Year 2 Report, published in December 2022, how many police forces have a Homicide Prevention Strategy.

Answered by Sarah Dines

The Home Office have continued to build our evidence base on domestic homicides and suicides linked to domestic abuse through funding the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), College of Policing and Vulnerability and Knowledge Practice Programme (VKPP) Domestic Homicide Project. The Home Office fully supports the recommendations made in the project’s second year report. The recommendations for the Home Office reflect our own priorities to implement Domestic Homicide Review reform, as committed to in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. We will work with the NPCC and VKPP Domestic Homicide Project team to monitor the implementation of the recommendations made within the report.

In October the College of Policing published a new homicide prevention framework for forces and policing partners to reduce crimes that can lead to homicide. This homicide prevention framework brings together the best available evidence to support police forces to analyse and understand their crime problems and drivers of homicide, to develop and implement effective interventions and tactics, and to identify where partnership support is needed. It has been developed jointly with the NPCC and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) as part of the national homicide prevention strategy.


Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 01 Dec 2022
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott.

Violence against women and girls is a problem not just for women and girls. Every woman or girl who feels scared to walk down a street, get on a bus, go on a date, go to school or college, …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 01 Dec 2022
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

"I am afraid that I have a lot to say, so I will not on this occasion.

In my constituency, we have benefited from tangible differences, thanks to this Government, with more than £400,000 in funding for the community on the Greenlands estate. I thank my friend Councillor Emma Marshall …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review.

It is great to see Members here, and I thank the House for allowing time for this vital debate. I believe this Government have a strong and world-leading record on tackling violence against women and girls. …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing that case to the House’s attention. As I said, I have read about hundreds of such cases. It is very important that the police and all the frontline services put into practice the training that they now have to deal with these issues. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review

"I thank the Minister for the detail and commitment that he has shown to this process. I want to lodge one thought with him: he mentioned that courts need to take account of evidence that the parties had engaged in such activity within the rough sex domain, as we have …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review

"Thank you for allowing me time to wind up, Mr Bone. I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for the compelling speech that he gave. In his remarks, he talked about the fact that women have been killed at the hands of their partners, and about the desperate …..."
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Written Question
Undocumented Migrants
Tuesday 29th November 2022

Asked by: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to seek a derogation to its legal obligations to help tackle the number of people entering the UK in breach of immigration laws from safe countries.

Answered by Robert Jenrick - Shadow Secretary of State for Justice

This Government is committed to ensuring that the UK has control of its own borders. This means continuing to tackle the people smugglers who put the lives of men, women and children in danger by facilitating their illegal entry into the UK by perilous and potentially fatal means.

As my Rt Hon. friend the Home Secretary has previously set out, in developing any necessary new legislation or other measures to address this issue we will always work within the bounds of international law