Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to comply with the requirements of the Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Act 2017.

On 30 October a Written Ministerial Statement was laid setting out our current steps to comply with the Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Act 2017. It is available at https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-10-30/HCWS1048/ and the second annual report is available at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ratification-of-the-council-of-europe-convention-on-combating-violence-against-women-and-domestic-violence-progress-report