Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to respond to findings of the consultation on Managing Pavement Parking which closed on 22 November 2020; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of granting local authorities outside London more enforcement powers to manage pavement parking.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department has been considering all the views expressed in response to the 2020 consultation and is currently working through the policy options and the appropriate means of delivering them. As soon as the Government has decided its preferred way forward, we will announce the next steps and publish our formal response.  In the meantime, local authorities can make use of existing powers to restrict and enforce pavement parking.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on preventing violence against women and girls.

Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Government has set an unprecedented mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.

The cross-government violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy will set out the strategic direction and concrete actions to deliver on this ambition, informed by the best available evidence, including from other countries.

As part of our evidence-gathering, we have engaged extensively with a wide range of international partners and stakeholders to share perspectives and learning regarding the prevention of VAWG. We have also engaged with countries that look to the UK to understand and observe effective practices that we implement to prevent VAWG.