Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to conduct a pilot project to assess the needs of migrant women with no recourse to public funds; on what basis the decision to carry out that pilot was made; and what the findings are of the internal review conducted by her Department into that matter.

The Government committed to review its overall response to migrant victims of domestic abuse in response to the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill in June 2019.

The evidence gathering phase of the review has been completed and detailed findings will be published by Commons Report stage.

This will provide further information on the rationale behind conducting a pilot project to assess the needs of migrant victims with no recourse to public funds and the basis upon which the decision to carry out the pilot was made.