Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce domestic violence with knives.

'Freedom from Violence and Abuse: a cross-government strategy to build a safer society for women and girls', sets out a range of commitments to tackle domestic abuse, including:

• Investing £13.9 million this year into the National Centre for VAWG and Public Protection to strengthen the police response to VAWG crimes.

• Rolling out Domestic Abuse Protection Orders to all police forces and courts across England and Wales. These cover all forms of domestic abuse and can impose tougher restrictions on perpetrators.

In April, the government published the Halving Knife Crime Plan, which sets out how we will use all available levers across government to halve knife crime within a decade. The Plan combines early intervention, targeted prevention and robust enforcement, including over £66 million for Serious Violence Reduction Programmes in 2026/27. Through the Serious Violence Duty, local partners must work together to prevent serious violence, with local strategies considering domestic abuse.