Nick Timothy
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Jess Phillips
I thank my hon. Friend for his question. I am literally about to go into a cross-Government ministerial meeting with the Department for Education about exactly that. Our violence against women and girls strategy will not succeed without prevention through education.
Nick Timothy (West Suffolk) (Con)
The Home Secretary quite conspicuously failed to answer the question that my hon. Friend the Member for Weald of Kent (Katie Lam) asked earlier, so I am going to have another go. Should it ever be a criminal offence for anybody to desecrate a religious text—yes or no?
Yvette Cooper
The hon. Gentleman will know that we do not have a blasphemy law in this country, nor will we have one.