Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 3
3
Deferred
Increase transparency on cross-government VAWG work to build public confidence
Conclusion
Assessing the Home Office’s previous work, we are not convinced that it has the capacity or imagination to deliver on the Government’s target to halve VAWG in a decade. The Government needs to be more transparent about the work that cross-government groups are undertaking in order to build confidence and trust in the Government’s ability to work in a coherent way to tackle VAWG. (Conclusion, Paragraph 12)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government declined to comment on the Home Office's capacity, and instead of addressing the need for transparency on cross-government group work, it explained how PCCs fund victim support and how VAWG funding decisions are made during the Spending Review.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Home Office, in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice, coordinates and leads on several cross-government meetings at Ministerial and Official level, including extensive external engagement to inform the VAWG Strategy. This includes a cross-government Ministerial Group, and a VAWG Strategy Advisory Board with stakeholders to inform the development of the strategy. Through these, government has conducted a series of Ministerially chaired roundtables, with key sector leads, academics, policing, local practitioners and government departments on pertinent topics to deliver our ambition on VAWG. The contents of these meetings have been and continue to be confidential as they inform the development of government policy. To ensure stakeholders can offer robust challenge and have honest and iterative discussions on policies, it would not be in the public interest to publish minutes or summaries of these board meetings.
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