Domestic abuse stats show women ‘being failed’ by government says Jess Phillips

The shadow minister for domestic violence Jess Phillips has said that the government is “failing” women and girls.

Her comments comes after figures released today by the ONS, demonstrate that the number of domestic abuse-related crimes in England and Wales has soared by 6% between March 2020 and March 2021 while convictions have dropped by 10%.

Phillips said in light of the news: “Staggeringly, this government has overseen yet another rise in the number of victims experiencing domestic abuse. Police recorded cases have doubled in the last five years and yet prosecutions for this crime continue to plummet. We are seeing women and girls being failed at every step of their journey by this government.

“These figures are a damning indictment of the inaction by this Conservative government which show that while the number of victims rise, “fewer perpetrators are being brought to justice.

The government must stop making excuses and immediately implement the measures in Labour’s violence against women and girls green paper including making misogyny a hate crime, increasing the minimum sentence for rape and stalking, and introduce a new law on street harassment – as well as implementing the urgent recommendations of the recent HMICFRS inspection.”