Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help protect victims of domestic abuse in Newport West.

Victims of domestic abuse in Wales, including Newport West, have access to a range of support and protections as a result of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and our Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan (2022).

The Plan invests over £230 million of cross-Government funding into tackling this crime. This includes up to £140 million for supporting victims, and over £81 million for tackling perpetrators and to support policing. Funding which may support victims in Newport West from this plan includes, but is not limited to:

• Welsh Women’s Aid was awarded over £2.5 million from the Children Affected by Domestic Abuse Fund to directly support 2,645 children and young people across over a three-year period, providing one-to-one and trauma-informed support in refuges, schools and community settings.
• Services in receipt of funding from the £8.3 million VAWG Support and Specialist Services Fund such as Hourglass, who received over £793,000 until March 2025 to provide specialist support services to older victims of domestic abuse across England and Wales.
• Funding for helplines, such as the National LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Helpline, delivered by Galop.
• The Support for Migrant Victims Scheme which provides accommodation and wrap around support for migrant victims of domestic abuse with insecure immigration status.

From 31^st January 2024, victims can benefit from direct payments to victims flee abuse or build a sustainable future due to an additional new £2 million investment into the Flexible Fund.

This funding is alongside measures to protect victims and pursue perpetrators, such as adding violence against women crime types – including domestic abuse – to the revised Strategic Policing Requirement, elevating it to a national threat for police forces to respond to accordingly.