Report says government should take a wider range of actions to tackle domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.

On 17 February 2017 the Prime Minister announced a programme of work leading towards the introduction of a Domestic Abuse Bill.

In the Queen’s Speech in June 2017, the government subsequently committed to bring forward a draft bill that proposes to: enshrine a definition of domestic abuse in law; introduce a new protection order to better protect victims from their abusers; recognise the harm domestic abuse inflicts on a child; create a Domestic Abuse Commissioner; and demonstrate commitment to ratifying the Istanbul Convention by extending extraterritorial jurisdiction over Violence against Women and Girls-related offences.