Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jess Phillips and Kenneth Stevenson

Wednesday 5th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Jess Phillips]

The Ministry of Justice, which oversees victims funding, absolutely ringfenced those two sexual violence funds last year to ensure that they were protected. As for future funding, it would be difficult for me to stand here and guarantee anything while the comprehensive spending review is being allocated, but as someone who used to work in one of those services, I find it vanishingly unlikely that they will not be funded in the future.

[Kenneth Stevenson (Airdrie and Shotts) (Lab)]

3. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help increase the female workforce within STEM industries.