Ministry of Justice written question – answered am ar 26 Mawrth 2024.
Rupa Huq
Llafur, Ealing Central and Acton
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reform the criminal justice system to help tackle violence against women and girls.
Bill Esterson
Shadow Minister (Transport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reform the criminal justice system to help tackle violence against women and girls.
Andrew Jones
Chair, European Statutory Instruments Committee, Chair, European Statutory Instruments Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to tackle violence against women and girls through the criminal justice system.
Laura Farris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice and Home Office)
This Government has introduced a comprehensive legislative framework to prevent violence against women, including our landmark Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
We have pioneered the creation of new offences including coercive control, non-fatal strangulation and intimate image abuse; more than doubled the number of adult rape cases reaching court compared to when we commissioned our End-to-End Rape Review; and made sure that sentences for adult rape are almost 40% longer than they were in 2010.
And through our Sentencing Bill, we will ensure that rapists and serious sexual offenders spend the entirety of their custodial sentence behind bars, without possibility of parole.
Yes1 person thinks so
No1 person thinks not
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