Victims of Domestic Abuse: Criminal Justice System

Part of Justice – in the House of Commons at on 3 February 2026.

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Photo of Alex Davies-Jones Alex Davies-Jones The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

The hon. Lady is totally right to raise that point. We talk a lot about multi-agency working, but it is difficult to put into practice. As she will be aware, just before Christmas we published the “Freedom from Violence and Abuse” strategy on how we can tackle violence against women and girls, with multi-agency working on a national level and practices and applications at the heart of that strategy. I will meet our victims’ sector advisory board later this afternoon, and I will make sure to raise this point with them as well, so that we bring them in. They are the people on the ground delivering this work, so we should learn from them directly.