We asked the departments how they planned to learn from these local initiatives to support government’s understanding of what works. The Home Office recognised there was local variation, but said it did not wish to mandate a single approach to tackling VAWG nationally, as it felt this would stifle local innovation and assume that every community is identical.42 The Home Office told us that it wants to continue to encourage local variation by continuing to fund small local charities to carry out evaluations effectively. This includes bidding into the £100 million Cabinet Office fund for test–and–learn initiatives to help support these evaluations.43