Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence

(asked on 15th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the annual report on progress on UK ratification of the Istanbul Convention in line with the Government's responsibilities under section 2 of the Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Act 2017.


Answered by
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Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 20th October 2020

The UK signed the Istanbul Convention in 2012, signalling its strong commitment to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) and this Government remains committed to ratifying it.

The Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Act 2017 requires Ministers to publish annual reports on their progress towards being able to ratify the Convention. The third such report was published on 31 October 2019.

We will shortly be publishing this year’s report on our progress, which will set out our compliance position and the steps we are taking towards ratification.

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