Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Building a robust response to perpetrators: recommendations for the new Domestic Abuse Strategy, published by the Drive Partnership on 9 September 2021, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the recommendations in that report.

In the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, the Government have committed to publish a comprehensive perpetrator strategy that aims to bring more perpetrators to justice and reduce reoffending.

In the new year, we will publish a strategy dedicated to tackling domestic abuse. It will be informed by the 180,000 responses we received to our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Call for Evidence. The strategy will seek to transform the whole of society’s response to domestic abuse to prevent offending, support victims and pursue perpetrators, as well as to strengthen the systems in place needed to deliver these goals.

We are extremely grateful for the input, advice, and expertise we have received so far from the domestic abuse sector, including the report on Building a robust response to Perpetrators, which we have considered when developing the strategy.