Select Committee · Home Affairs Committee

Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Funding

Status: Closed Opened: 26 Feb 2025 Closed: 9 Dec 2025 11 recommendations 7 conclusions 1 report

This short inquiry is aimed at influencing the content of the Government’s new VAWG strategy, which is expected later this year. The aim is to examine the link between funding and outcomes. The inquiry will explore themes around funding that the Government needs to address in its strategy to be able to meet its policy …

Reports

1 report

Title	HC No.	Published	Items	Response
3rd Report - Tackling violence against women and girls: fun…	HC 741	11 Jul 2025	18	Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

3 items

8 Recommendation 3rd Report - Tackling violence against … Acknowledged

Establish a cross-government audit to identify necessary data for evaluation and consistent reporting metrics

We recommend that the Home Office establishes, as soon as practicable, a cross-government audit to identify which data it is necessary to collect for evaluation purposes. The findings of this audit should be used to establish more consistent reporting metrics across government, to both reduce the burden to funding applicants …

Government response. The government highlights ongoing work by DfE and OfS on prevention and curriculum changes. The Home Office states it will continue to work with DfE and others to expand the evidence base for VAWG prevention, including through analysis of linked …

Home Office

10 Recommendation 3rd Report - Tackling violence against … Acknowledged

Re-assess value for money criteria for VAWG funding, weighting towards qualitative data for impact

We recommend that the Government re-assesses the value for money criteria for VAWG funding awarded to local authorities. They should be weighted towards qualitative data to ensure that the impact on people’s lives is a more significant factor than cost. (Recommendation, Paragraph 26) Allocation of funding

Government response. The government details existing frameworks and a recent evaluation that highlighted opportunities to improve value for money and strengthen qualitative outcome measures, which MHCLG is considering. However, it does not explicitly commit to re-assessing value for money criteria for VAWG …

Home Office

15 Recommendation 3rd Report - Tackling violence against … Acknowledged

Increase funding for VAWG prevention programmes to meet the halving target

In the long term, funding for prevention is vital if the Government’s target of halving VAWG in a decade has a chance of being met. Currently there is insufficient funding of prevention programmes, in part because of the difficulties in measuring impact. This difficulty should not be a barrier to …

Government response. The government acknowledged the importance of prevention for halving VAWG and outlined its strategic approach through the VAWG strategy, evidence-based evaluations, and collaborative work with the Department for Education on preventative measures.

Home Office

Oral evidence sessions

2 sessions

Date	Witnesses
17 Jun 2025	Alison Lowe OBE · West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Clare Moody · Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, Councillor Sue Woolley · Local Government Association, Gisela Carr · Home Office, Jess Phillips MP · Home Office	View ↗
6 May 2025	Ellie Butt · Refuge, Ghadah Alnasseri · Imkaan, Leyla Buran · White Ribbon UK, Sarah Fulham · Hestia	View ↗

Correspondence

2 letters

Date	Direction	Title
8 Jul 2025	To cttee	Letter from the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls …
8 Jul 2025	To cttee	letter from the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls …