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Gender Based Violence: Surrey Heath

Asked by Dr Al PinkertonLiberal DemocratHome OfficeTabled Answered 15 September 2025UIN 76489

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support awareness campaigns on violence against women and girls in Surrey Heath constituency.

Answered by Jess Phillips

The Government is treating is treating violence against women and girls as a national emergency. We have set out our unprecedented ambition to halve the prevalence of VAWG within a decade, using every lever available to us.

We are going further than before to deliver a cross-government transformative approach to halve VAWG, underpinned by a new VAWG Strategy to be published as soon as possible. We are actively considering the contribution that communications campaigns can play and will work closely with stakeholders on this.

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