questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the use of statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery and insolvency proceedings as a means of economic abuse within the meaning of section 1 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
answerText: We recognise that statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery or insolvency proceedings may be used by perpetrators as a form of economic abuse, where they are used to control, coerce or cause financial harm to a victim. Economic abuse...
heading: Domestic Abuse