Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Attorney General

Oral Answers to Questions

Geraint Davies Excerpts
Wednesday 7th December 2022

(1 year, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kate Osborne Portrait Kate Osborne (Jarrow) (Lab)
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8. What steps she is taking to increase the proportion of cases relating to violence against women and girls that are prosecuted.

Geraint Davies Portrait Geraint Davies (Swansea West) (Lab/Co-op)
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10. What steps she is taking to increase the proportion of cases relating to violence against women and girls that are prosecuted.

Michael Tomlinson Portrait The Solicitor General (Michael Tomlinson)
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The Government are committed to tackling violence against women and girls, and we have enacted a multitude of new offences designed to target predatory behaviour and to ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice. That includes stalking, coercive and controlling behaviour and upskirting. Further, in the year ending June 2022, prosecutions for rape offences were 49% higher compared with pre-covid levels.