Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will meet the Northern Ireland Justice Minister to discuss how his Department can support work to prevent violence against women and children in Northern Ireland.

This Government is strongly committed to tackling violence against women and girls in all its forms, and published a new ‘Ending Violence Against Women and Girls’ (VAWG) Strategy in March 2016, supported by increased funding of £80m to 2020.

As Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) policy is devolved to Northern Ireland and Scotland, the strategy covers England and Wales only, but the Government will continue to work with counterparts in the NI Executive to share best practice. Officials from the Home Office and Ministry of Justice engage regularly with their counterparts in Northern Ireland on these issues.