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Domestic Abuse: Bank Services

Asked by Catherine FookesLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 8 June 2026UIN 900280

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle financial abuse.

Answered by Natalie Fleet

The VAWG strategy and the Financial Inclusion Strategy set out ambitious commitments to tackle this issue of financial abuse.

We are working with the financial sector to make sure that coerced debt, credit ratings, Child Maintenance Service payments, and joint mortgages cannot be used as tools of abuse.

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