Violence Against Women and Girls: Sentencing
Debate between Laurence Robertson and Edward Argar(1 year, 9 months ago)
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Edward Argar
My hon. Friend is right to highlight, for want of a better way of putting it, the innovation and thought going into finding ways to tackle what is a complex offence.
We have invested more than £230 million in implementing the domestic abuse plan, including more than £140 million spent on supporting victims and more than £81 million on tackling perpetrators. We have doubled funding for survivors of sexual violence and for the national domestic abuse helpline this financial year, and further increased funding for all the national helplines that it supports. In 2021-22, more than 81,000 people received support from Home Office-funded VAWG helplines.
As I have alluded to, we passed the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which introduced a range of measures, including —[Interruption.]
Mr Laurence Robertson (in the Chair)
Order. There is a Division, so I have to suspend the sitting.
Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Laurence Robertson and Edward Argar(2 years, 7 months ago)
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Edward Argar
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and had we been going further down the route of privatisation, his question might have had a little more resonance. What we are doing in the NHS in England is investing in our workforce and investing in our national health service, while of course working closely with the independent sector to maximise the use of its capacity in parallel to make sure we bring down waiting lists and waiting times.
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury) (Con)