Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) effect on economic output of violence against women and girls and (b) total spending on public services to prevent and tackle that violence.

The most recent estimate of the cost to the economy of violence against women and girls was published in 2009 by Sylvia Walby.

As part of the non-legislative package of work on our Domestic Abuse Bill we will publish an updated estimate of the cost to the economy of violence against women and girls.
Over the course of this Parliament the Government is spending £100 million to support victims and survivors of violence against women and girls.