Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department provides to the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

Funding for the forthcoming Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy will be confirmed when the strategy is published in the coming months.

Health does make an important contribution to tackling violence against women and girls. For example, NHS England spent £52.8 million on the provision of sexual assault and abuse services in 2023/24. Figures for more recent years are not yet available. The Department also funds the ongoing collection of data on female genital mutilation attendances in the National Health Service.