Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of improving education on relationship abuse amongst teenagers in schools.

This government is committed to ensuring that children are taught to tackle harmful ideas, unhealthy views about relationships and misogyny in school. We have overhauled the relationships, sex, and health education (RSHE) curriculum, with a new focus on developing skills for healthy relationships from the beginning of primary school and equipping children with the tools to tackle harmful influences.

We have also committed £16 million to fund the Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Programme. The programme will identify, test and evaluate the best approaches to promoting healthy and respectful relationships in secondary schools, and to responding to inappropriate and problematic attitudes and behaviours in relationships.