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Recommendation 4
4
Deferred
Publish minutes of cross-government groups tackling VAWG as soon as practicable
Recommendation
We recommend that minutes of cross-government groups that have been set up to tackle VAWG should be published as soon as practicable after their meetings. (Recommendation, Paragraph 13)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response detailed the analytical work behind the VAWG strategy, performance metrics, and governance structures for implementation, but it did not address the recommendation to publish minutes of cross-government groups.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
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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