Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how they intend to ensure effective cross-government delivery of the Freedom from Violence and Abuse Strategy; and what mechanisms are in place to monitor progress towards halving violence against women and girls within a decade.

The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy sets out a ten-year vision to halve VAWG in a decade.

We are ensuring effective delivery of this through a rigorous cross-government governance structure. Ministers from across government departments meet on a bi-monthly basis to review progress, provide updates on delivery of their commitments as outlined in the action plan and unblock barriers to delivery.

We are measuring our progress through the performance framework, which is outlined in the VAWG Strategy. This includes a package of cross-government metrics that will monitor progress against the overall strategy.