Speeches by Phillips.

“I literally forgot the name of it; I am all menopausal. We will have submetrics that sit underneath that for monitoring so that we can test progress along the way because that is quite an overarching measure.”

“I want to see them all going in a downward trajectory.”

“When the violence against women and girls strategy is published, exactly how it will be monitored and what tests will be put against it will be made clear. I do not just want to write a document; I want you good people to be able to scrutinise me on it. In actual fact, what you would want to see going up—like we have s…”

“It is about the VAWG strategy.”

“There is evaluation of some prevention programmes, for example, that we have undertaken that show reductions in violence perpetrated much more quickly, for example, in perpetrator programmes. I do not think that there is a sense where I am just going to be able to go, “Oh, you know, don’t worry. We all said it was goin…”

“I was interested to hear about the at-risk seven-year funding that was being undertaken in Avon and Somerset, and it is very easy for me to ask others to take a risk-based approach on that level. We have a multi-year, three-year spending review, and I very much expect to pay that forward in what is funded through the H…”

“I can only really speak for the Home Office. Contrary to what was just said, we do not fund victim services in local communities; we fund national victim services. For example, we fund the helplines, some are by and for services. What I would say is that from the money that the Home Office has announced for the victim …”

“The national funding that the Home Office gives to victim services is—”

“It goes directly to the provider. The money that I fund for the forced marriage helpline goes directly to the forced marriage helpline. The money we fund for Domestic Abuse National Helpline goes directly to Refuge. So it is ring-fenced in the sense that they have a funding model that means they have to only do that th…”

“That is the Ministry of Justice, is it not?”

“No, we did not put in joint spending bids. There was a process certainly on the Violence Against Women and Girls Board—the cross-government board, which has 14 different Departments—where we all put together the bids that we would put in that would go towards the Violence Against Women and Girls strategy within our own…”

“We can talk about it in the lobby, assuming we are in the same one. I am not assuming anything today.”

“It is lovely to see you here from the Justice Committee. Obviously, this is in the remit of the Ministry of Justice, but the answer to your first question is no, we do not know the data on how many people are in prison or are charged with specific domestic abuse. We have a number of different data sources that we could…”

“And it commences now. The point of putting that into the legislation—which was actually fought for by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, as somebody was on all those Bill Committees—is exactly that: to make people pool their resources locally and make sure that duplication does not happen.”

“Sorry, the fan that I have on me is very noisy.”

“We will publish the violence against women and girls strategy, which as I have said will be published before the summer recess. What the violence against women and girls strategy will have within it is a monitoring and how we will test against it, and that is not just for my Government Department but for them all.”

“The Minister for Homelessness sits on the VAWG Board, and I do not want to play favourites, but she is an active member. It is often considered much more so with regard to domestic abuse, but there is a fundamental link across the board between violence against women and girls and issues around homelessness. There is a…”

“There is absolutely no doubt about that. From a Home Office perspective, we fund so little in the space of victim services and the vast majority of funding in victim services comes from the Ministry of Justice. I very much expect to see some of this issue around commissioning and timeframes in the violence against wome…”

“It not being a trial issue is for greater legal minds and the Department that leads on it to answer. However, what I would say is that is a huge amount of what we have been seeking to do in the first year of being in office and will seek to do going forward. The Domestic Abuse Protection Orders that we deliver in conce…”

“Say the first one and I will answer”