Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle domestic violence.

Domestic abuse is an abhorrent crime and tackling it remains a top priority for this Government.

We remain committed to delivering our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy and complimentary Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. We have doubled funding for the National Domestic Abuse Helpline and added violence against women and girls - including domestic abuse - to the revised Strategic Policing Requirement elevating it to a national threat for police forces to respond to accordingly.