Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Maya Ellis and Leigh Ingham

Thursday 6th February 2025 Commons Chamber

[Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley) (Lab)]

2. What steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates for cases involving violence against women and girls.

[Leigh Ingham (Stafford) (Lab)]

11. What steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates for cases involving violence against women and girls.

[The Solicitor General]

The scale of violence against women and girls in this country is intolerable, and the Government are treating it as the national emergency that it is. The CPS has begun securing convictions of offenders who breach domestic abuse protection orders—a scheme that the Government introduced in November 2024 in order better to protect victims of domestic abuse. Although there is much more to be done, that is just one example of the clear action that the Government are taking to meet our mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.