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HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI thank my hon. Friend and Birmingham constituency neighbour and share his real concern about a spate of what appear to be instances of racially motivated sexual violence. All I…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI will have to go away and check exactly what the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones) has said regarding the people…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsThe Ministry of Justice, which oversees victims funding, absolutely ringfenced those two sexual violence funds last year to ensure that they were protected. As for future funding,…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsYes, I can absolutely give the hon. Gentleman that assurance, and I would be more than happy to meet him to discuss these matters and see where we can go forward together. The…05 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Minister for Women and Equalities is already wearing a pink jacket. I absolutely pay tribute to the group in my hon. Friend’s constituency. The Under-Secretary of State for…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI absolutely do support the “Loose Women” in this regard. I was about to say that I would like to think of myself as one, but I am not sure that that would come across very well.…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI thank my hon. Friend for his passionate plea, and I absolutely will take up his suggestions in the meetings to which I have already referred. Tier 1 local authorities in England…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI have handled cases myself that were not dissimilar, where a third party could not be given that information, so I absolutely understand the hon. Lady’s frustration. That area,…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI greatly appreciate the hon. Lady’s question, and I was very proud when it was announced yesterday that this Government would make strangulation in pornography illegal in our…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsSadly, what my hon. Friend describes is something that I think everybody in the House would recognise. We are strengthening the justice system to better support victims, and we…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. However, there have been recent successful campaigns by British Transport police and the Rail Delivery Group, which is the rail…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsTackling violence against women and girls is a top priority for this Government. We will deliver a cross-Government, transformative approach underpinned by the new strategy, which…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsThe hon. Lady makes a very important point about how women’s health can be used in coercion, especially their fertility—on both sides of the coin: about having an abortion or not…05 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI have seen those cases. Domestic homicide reviews point to failures in the Child Maintenance Service that have led to the most tragic circumstances. We are working with the…05 Nov 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryFirst, while the inquiry is in England and Wales, one of the victims who we have been hearing about today—Ellie—lives very much in the borderland of our two great countries of…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryIn answer to the first question, I have every power to intervene in the panel’s process, but the decision I made was that it should be independent of me and my offices, and would…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryI absolutely share the hon. Gentleman’s upset and frustration on the matter. He knows that when I say that I will do whatever I can to ensure that these problems are sorted out,…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryI really hope so, but I am not going to do what other people seem to want to do in this circumstance and pretend that there is a guarantee and that I have some sort of magic…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryI will chair an interministerial cross-Government group next week to push through the other recommendations. Baroness Casey made 12 recommendations, but people rarely speak about…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I am not sure what the hon. Member is confused about. A victims panel was set up to look at both the terms of reference and the…21 Oct 2025