Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Kate Osborne and Helen Hayes

Tuesday 18th October 2022 Commons Chamber

[Kate Osborne (Jarrow) (Lab)]

2. What steps his Department is taking to reform the criminal justice system to help tackle violence against women and girls.

[Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood) (Lab)]

12. What steps his Department is taking to reform the criminal justice system to help tackle violence against women and girls.

[The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Rachel Maclean)]

Since we published the end-to-end rape review, rape convictions have increased by 77% in the past year, and they are up by 30% on pre-pandemic levels. But there is much more to do, which is why, among other measures, we are more than quadrupling funding for victim support, to £192 million, and investing in increasing the number of independent sexual and domestic abuse advisers to 1,000 by 2024-25.