Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of (a) domestic abuse and (b) coercive control on the health of people affected.

No recent assessment has made. However, the Department is working with the Office for National Statistics to explore how insights from health data can improve the understanding of violence against women and girls. The information generated will be used to improve services and women and girls’ experiences and inform interventions on violence against women and girls.