Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Melanie Onn Excerpts
Monday 26th February 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I join my hon. Friend in congratulating southern Hampshire on taking action to protect women and to raise funds for refuges. The support of local charities, councillors and local activists is often necessary to ensure that the women in their communities are kept safe.

Melanie Onn Portrait Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby) (Lab)
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Marianne and Tracy, two domestic violence victims in my constituency, came to see me to ask me to support their petition asking the Government to do more to tackle serial domestic abuses by, for instance, providing a publicly accessible register to help to prevent perpetrators such as George Ward, their former partner, from successfully targeting new potential victims through dating websites such as Tinder.

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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The hon. Lady is right: serial domestic abusers are one of the worst elements of this whole subject. I encourage her, and her constituents, to participate in the consultation so that we can ensure that that particular trend is addressed.