Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle coercive control by ex-partners.

Controlling or coercive behaviour is an insidious and often under-recognised form of domestic abuse.

To improve the multi-agency response to coercive or controlling behaviour and reflect latest policy and practice, we will update statutory guidance by the end of this year.

We will also improve the policing response to all VAWG, through our £13m investment in the new National Centre for VAWG and Public Protection.