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Select Committee
Government Equalities Office, Department for Work and Pensions, Equality Hub, Cabinet Office, and Department for Work and Pensions

Oral Evidence Mar. 06 2024

Inquiry: Impact of the rising cost of living on women
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Maria Caulfiel d: We have b een doing a lot of work around domestic abuse.

Lords Chamber
Domestic Violence Refuges: Charities and Local Government - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Of course, some victims of domestic abuse are children, in addition to the females—or males, depending - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as a founder and patron of Survivors Against Domestic Abuse. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Some £3.3 million has been committed over the next three years to support delivery of Domestic Abuse - Speech Link
4: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, as the Minister says, there is currently no sign of domestic abuse being overcome and things - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day: Language in Politics - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Dawn Butler (Lab - Brent Central) That approach needs to be replaced with responsible reporting that tackles the root of domestic abuse - Speech Link
2: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) I can assure her that I have met ministerial colleagues, but also the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, and - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Conversion Therapy Prohibition (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Bill [HL] - Fri 09 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It is therefore useful to consider conversion therapy to be a similar experience to domestic abuse in - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) to craft exemptions or exceptions so as to ensure that any particular conduct, including conduct in domestic - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Lab - Life peer) Time and again this has been done, whether in hospitals, mental hospitals or women’s refuges; there have - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) It is interesting that we have introduced the whole understanding of coercive conduct into domestic violence - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Disability Unit

Feb. 05 2024

Source Page: Disability Action Plan
Document: Disability Action Plan (PDF) (PDF)

Found: facing domestic abuse.

Non-Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Disability Unit

Feb. 05 2024

Source Page: Disability Action Plan
Document: Disability Action Plan (large print) (PDF)

Found: facing domestic abuse.

Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) One problem of the Domestic Abuse Act is that it has downgraded non-domestic stalking. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) and more generally for domestic abuse victims and survivors. - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and domestic abuse evolve. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) on Domestic Abuse and Violence, I have been struck by how often the domestic abuse sector has referred - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) ; domestic workers are very vulnerable to this abuse. - Speech Link

Select Committee
Surviving Economic Abuse, TSB Bank Plc, Women's Aid, Business in the Community, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and Trades Union Congress

Oral Evidence Jan. 31 2024

Inquiry: Impact of the rising cost of living on women
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Surviving Economic Abuse, TSB Bank Plc, Women's Aid, Business in the Community, Chartered Institute of

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Jan. 31 2024

Source Page: Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Systems-wide evaluation feasibility reports
Document: Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Systems-wide evaluation: Feasibility study (PDF)

Found: Most often , this concerns specialist services such as drug and alcohol services, domestic abuse, mental

Written Question
Domestic Abuse: Newport West
Thursday 25th January 2024

Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help protect victims of domestic abuse in Newport West.

Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)

Victims of domestic abuse in Wales, including Newport West, have access to a range of support and protections as a result of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and our Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan (2022).

The Plan invests over £230 million of cross-Government funding into tackling this crime. This includes up to £140 million for supporting victims, and over £81 million for tackling perpetrators and to support policing. Funding which may support victims in Newport West from this plan includes, but is not limited to:

  • Welsh Women’s Aid was awarded over £2.5 million from the Children Affected by Domestic Abuse Fund to directly support 2,645 children and young people across over a three-year period, providing one-to-one and trauma-informed support in refuges, schools and community settings.
  • Services in receipt of funding from the £8.3 million VAWG Support and Specialist Services Fund such as Hourglass, who received over £793,000 until March 2025 to provide specialist support services to older victims of domestic abuse across England and Wales.
  • Funding for helplines, such as the National LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Helpline, delivered by Galop.
  • The Support for Migrant Victims Scheme which provides accommodation and wrap around support for migrant victims of domestic abuse with insecure immigration status.

From 31st January 2024, victims can benefit from direct payments to victims flee abuse or build a sustainable future due to an additional new £2 million investment into the Flexible Fund.

This funding is alongside measures to protect victims and pursue perpetrators, such as adding violence against women crime types – including domestic abuse – to the revised Strategic Policing Requirement, elevating it to a national threat for police forces to respond to accordingly.