Jess Phillips: Section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023 does not criminalise any specific activity within safe access zones. It introduces a new criminal offence for a person who is within a Safe Access Zone to do an act with the intent of, or reckless as to whether it has the effect of, influencing any person’s decision to access, provide or facilitate the provision of abortion services, obstructing or...
Jess Phillips: This Government will treat tackling violence against women and girls as a national emergency and that includes improving the criminal justice system response to sexual assault and rape. The Home Office publishes information on the number of sexual offences and rapes reported to and recorded by the police in England and Wales at Community Safety Partnership Area, Police Force Area and Region...
Jess Phillips: We have set out to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. This will be achieved by drastically improving the police and wider criminal justice response, including a relentless pursuit of dangerous perpetrators and sustained support for victims. The Ministry of Justice provides core funding to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to allocate at their discretion, based on their...
Jess Phillips: The Home Office has already implemented a number of the recommendations, or is in the process of doing so. This includes: - The rollout of an online spiking reporting and advice tool across the UK to encourage more and better reporting of spiking, including anonymously. This is intended to improve data on the prevalence and scale of spiking. - Providing funding for the development of spiking...
Jess Phillips: The Government is committed to preventing young people being lured into crime, drugs, and criminal gangs. We will deliver on our Manifesto commitment and will bring forward measures to strengthen the law to tackle child criminal exploitation.
Jess Phillips: To make our streets safe, we must drastically reduce serious violent crimes and violence against women and girls; increase confidence in the police; stop young people falling into crime and make our criminal justice system work for victims. This Government will treat tackling violence against women and girls as a national emergency and will use every tool to target perpetrators and address...
Jess Phillips: The Home Office does not hold the information in an easily accessible format, therefore the information requested cannot be obtained without disproportionate cost.
Jess Phillips: It is essential that the public can have confidence in the police; the government has committed to restoring confidence in policing to record levels, alongside halving violence against women and girls and halving knife crime over a decade. These are core aims of the government's mission to take back our streets. The government is also committed to improving police standards by strengthening...
Jess Phillips: Protecting those involved in prostitution from harm is part of our wider work to halve the level of violence against woman and girls. This government will use every lever available to us to prevent the harms that prostituted women often experience. We will work with law enforcement and charity organisations to deliver this.
Jess Phillips: The Government is committed to preventing young people being lured into crime, drugs and criminal gangs. We will deliver on our Manifesto commitment and have already committed to bring forward new legislation to strengthen the law to tackle child criminal exploitation.
Jess Phillips: It is unacceptable that anyone should be subjected to harassment or intimidation for exercising their legal right to have access to abortion services. We will quickly review where these arrangements have got to and commence safe access zones around abortion clinics imminently.
Jess Phillips: The Home Office does not provide guidance on whether specific products have been made entirely or partially with forced labour. The Government encourages businesses to monitor their supply chains with rigour, to uncover and remedy any instances of modern slavery they may find. Under Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, commercial businesses who operate in the UK and have a turnover of...
Jess Phillips: The scale of violence against women and girls in our country is intolerable and this government will treat it as the national emergency that it is. The police are a crucial partner to deliver our ambition to halve VAWG in the next decade. We must drastically improve the police and wider criminal justice response, in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and across the country. We expect to...
Jess Phillips: Allocation of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority’s (GLAA) annual budget has been the responsibility of the Home Office since April 2014. Prior to this, the budget was held by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The Home Office does not have readily available access to information on total budgets covering the period of 2010-2014, when it was held by...
Jess Phillips: Modern slavery is a scourge that traumatises and dehumanises its victims. I recognise that the current strategy was published a decade ago. Since its publication, referral numbers into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and the volume of victims supported have changed dramatically. For instance, the number of NRM referrals has increased by 611% since the last quarter of 2014 and the...
Jess Phillips: This Government will treat tackling violence against women and girls as a national emergency and will use every tool to target perpetrators and address the root causes of violence. The scale of violence against women and girls in our country is intolerable, and we have set out our mission to halve it within a decade. Achieving this means overhauling every aspect of society’s response to...
Jess Phillips: Modern slavery is a scourge that traumatises and dehumanises its victims. The Government is committed to tackling it, taking a holistic approach that puts victims first. We will update on the future of Home Office policies in due course.
Jess Phillips: I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) for securing this debate, which, as she pointed out, is my first as a Home Office Minister—although definitely not my first on this subject, by any stretch of the imagination. From the outset, let me say that it is a privilege to have been asked by the Prime Minister to serve, and to work on some of the issues to which...
Jess Phillips: The trafficking of woman and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. We are determined to safeguard victims and to bring the ruthless perpetrators of this crime to justice. We are working closely with law enforcement partners and the devolved administrations to tackle the drivers of trafficking for sexual exploitation, including through operational intensifications to target...
Jess Phillips: The trafficking of woman and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. We are determined to safeguard victims and to bring the ruthless perpetrators of this crime to justice. We are working closely with law enforcement partners and the devolved administrations to tackle the drivers of trafficking for sexual exploitation, including through operational intensifications to target...
