Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of (a) 22 July 2024 to Question 66 and (b) 7 January 2025 to Question 20961 on Sexual Harassment, what progress she has made on implementation of the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023.

Tackling violence against women and girls is a top priority for this Government and a central part of our Safer Streets mission. Our unprecedented ambition is to halve the prevalence of VAWG within a decade, using every lever available to us.

Public sexual harassment is a crime that often leaves victims, who are disproportionately likely to be women, feeling unsafe on their own streets. That is unacceptable. Tackling public sexual harassment will form an important part of our cross-government VAWG strategy, which will be published before summer recess. We will confirm next steps on implementation of the Act at the earliest opportunity.