Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant the Answer of 22 July 2025 to Question 68230, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of making misogyny a hate crime; and what impact the cross‑Government Strategy on violence against women and girls has had on the Government’s policy on this matter.

The Government has tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill to extend the aggravated offences in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to cover hostility relating to disability, sexual orientation, transgender identity and sex.

This makes clear, in law, that offences motivated by hostility towards a victim’s sex or presumed sex will be treated just as seriously as those motivated by hostility towards the other range of protected characteristics in the hate crime regime.

This approach complements our wider mission to tackle violence against women and girls, set out in Freedom from Violence and Abuse: a cross-cutting strategy, published 18 December 2025.

The VAWG Strategy makes it clear that tackling misogyny, both online and offline, is central to our mission to halve VAWG within a decade and that achieving this requires a whole‑society approach. We are therefore working across government, public services, the private sector and charities to deliver our ambitions.