Josh Fenton-Glynn
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Lucy Powell
This matter is important to my hon. Friend’s constituents and to many others. As she says, NHS England should be paying careful attention to the needs of local communities and listening to local community voices when considering reorganisations or changes in services in any area. My hon. Friend’s is the second question of this kind that I have been asked today, and I am sure that were she to apply for a debate, it would be very well attended.
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Calder Valley) (Lab)
Three women a week commit suicide because of male violence against women, two women a week are killed by their current or former partners, and nearly four in 10 girls attending mixed schools have experienced some form of sexual harassment. In the year to March, there were 11,000 complaints about violence against women and girls on public transport. White Ribbon Day, which we marked earlier in the week, sends the clear message that dealing with this starts with men and the education of men. Given that it is clearly a cross-Government issue, may we have a debate in Government time on cross-Government solutions?
Lucy Powell
I thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue in the week of White Ribbon Day. This Government are absolutely committed to the challenging and ambitious target of halving violence against women and girls over the coming years, with a cross-Government taskforce already looking into how we can deliver on that mission. It includes education, as my hon. Friend mentioned, because, as he rightly pointed out, the campaign starts with men. We will shortly introduce, in the Policing and Crime Bill, some of the measures that we have specified, such as a new criminal offence of spiking. I look forward to debating them with my hon. Friend.