Correspondence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: Correspondence from the Minister for Victims and Safeguarding, relating to the escalation of violence
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Non-contact sexual offencesFound: Service, Metropolitan Police Service, British Transport Police, Home Office, Home Office, and Ministry of
Mentions:
1: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) or recurrence of trauma, through training on domestic abuse and trauma-informed practice.Although I - Speech Link
2: Don, Natalie (SNP - Renfrewshire North and West) Nonetheless, the impact of domestic abuse forms an important part of existing trauma training for panel - Speech Link
3: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) involve domestic abuse. - Speech Link
4: McCall, Roz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) Domestic abuse may continue overtly or covertly at different stages of a relationship and beyond, perhaps - Speech Link
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to (a) assess and (b) improve the effectiveness of existing legal measures designed to protect (a) minority ethnic women and (b) all people from domestic abuse.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The government has taken a number of measures to strengthen legislation and protections for victims of domestic abuse.
This includes the measures set out in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which is helping transform our response to victims and bring perpetrators to justice.
Controlling or Coercive Behaviour within an intimate or family relationship was made a criminal offence under the Serious Crime Act 2015. The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 removed the requirement for the parties to be ‘living together’ for the offence to occur, meaning it applies to intimate partners, ex-partners or family members, regardless of whether the victim and perpetrator live together.
The Domestic Abuse statutory guidance contains detailed sections setting out specifically how victims from ethnic minority backgrounds may experience additional barriers to identifying, disclosing, seeking help or reporting abuse.
The government continues to offer migrant victims in the UK who have, or last had, permission to be in the UK under the family Immigration Rules to apply for access to the Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession (MVDAC).
The government will continue to work with the police and criminal justice agencies to ensure the law is used to maximum effect to protect victims of domestic abuse.
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791].
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) migrant victim survivors of domestic abuse? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) migrant victim survivors of domestic abuse? - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) abuse, including children, and bring perpetrators to justice. - Speech Link
4: None perpetrators of crime.” - Speech Link
5: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) perpetrators of crime.” - Speech Link
6: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) perpetrators of crime.” - Speech Link
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Stronger protections for stalking and harassment victimsFound: be used in a domestic abuse context where appropriate .
Found: domestic abuse (1) The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 is amended as follows
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to tackle violence and sexual offences in Preston.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
As part of steps taken through our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy and Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, we are tackling perpetrators and supporting victims.
We have provided funding to the Lancashire PCC to roll out the Drive Project, which focuses on the most serious domestic abuse offenders to prevent them from abusing again, and funded Preston based Saraha to provide bilingual, comprehensive, face-to-face support service for women from black and minority ethnic backgrounds who are victims of domestic abuse.
Nationally, we have invested £9.4 million to develop a New Operation Model for the investigation of rape through Operation Soteria. This ensures investigations are suspect based. All police forces in England and Wales are now implementing this new approach to rape investigations and we have provided £8.5m in 2023/24 to continue to support policing to improve their response to rape.
Through the Safer Streets and Safety of Women at Night Funds, we have invested over £150 million to deliver interventions to tackle violence against women, anti-social behaviour and neighbourhood crime.
This includes just over £3.4m for Lancashire, of which £146,568 has been awarded to Preston City Council to fund interventions such as the installation of CCTV, the deployment of taxi stewards and night-time economy sector training, along with improvements to accommodation for services assisting women at risk and recovery services for victims of sexual violence.
Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £8m for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) in Lancashire. VRUs bring together local partners to understand and tackle the drivers of serious violence in their area, including sexual abuse and domestic abuse.
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: We recognize that unpaid care and domestic work are major obstacles to the full, equal, and meaningful