Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lorraine Beavers and Jonathan Davies

Monday 13th July 2026 Commons Chamber

[Lorraine Beavers (Blackpool North and Fleetwood) (Lab)]

1. What progress her Department has made on improving the police response to domestic abuse.

[Jonathan Davies (Mid Derbyshire) (Lab)]

2. What progress her Department has made on improving the police response to domestic abuse.

[The Minister for Policing and Crime (Sarah Jones)]

May I associate myself and my colleagues with your remarks about Ann Widdecombe, Mr Speaker? Ann was a Minister when I was doing my politics A-level, and she has been a firm part of our political life for the past three decades. May she rest in peace.

We are rolling out domestic abuse protection orders across England and Wales, and have trebled the number of forces with domestic abuse specialists in control rooms under Raneem’s law. We have established the national centre for violence against women and girls and public protection to transform the response to VAWG.