Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle street crime against women and girls.

We remain committed to delivering our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

We have allocated £125 million across England and Wales through the Safer Streets Fund and the Safety of Women at Night Fund, including £550,000 investment into the constituency of My Right Honourable Friend, the Member for Chelmsford.

The Government is supporting my Right Honourable Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells’s ‘Protection from Sex-Based Harassment in Public Bill’, which would make public sexual harassment a specific offence.