Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the progress of its Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

Action we have taken since publishing our cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy in June 2021 includes:

• appointing transport champions to help make public transport safer for women;
• awarded £30m to help make our streets safer through the ‘Safer Streets Fund’ and ‘Safety of Women at Night’ fund;
• launched a pilot of ‘StreetSafe’ to enable the public to anonymously report areas where they feel unsafe; and
• provided additional funding for specialist support services such as the Revenge Porn Helpline.

We are continuing to work with Departments across Government to drive progress in implementing the Strategy and are also working closely with Maggie Blyth who has been appointed as the National Policing Lead for VAWG to improve the policing response to these crimes.

In the coming months, we will also publish a complementary Strategy on tackling Domestic Abuse.