Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking with (a) regional mayoralties and (b) wider local government to help tackle violence against women and girls.

This Government has set out an ambition to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) within a decade and will treat it as the national emergency that it is. Achieving this requires a transformative approach to the way we work together across Government, public services, the private sector, and charities.

We are already driving forward a range of activities which will support local governments to tackle VAWG. We are continuing to implement Part 4 of the Domestic Abuse Act to ensure that victims of domestic abuse are able to access accommodation-based support. The Victims and Prisoners Act will require local commissioners, which includes Police and Crime Commissioners and local authorities, to identify and address gaps in support for victims of domestic abuse, and we also continue to champion the work being done by many PCCs and Deputy Mayors for Crime and Policing to tackle violence against women and girls in their local areas.