Jess Phillips spends seven minutes naming murdered women - as sons involved in nearly one in five cases

For the 11th year running, Labour MP Jess Phillips read out the names of 108 women killed in the UK by a man – or where a man has been charged – over the past 12 months.

It comes as new research, led by the Femicide Census sister project Counting Dead Women, showed that almost one in five women killed by men since last International Women’s Day were suspected victims of matricide.

The figure marks the highest matricide rate recorded in 16 years of Femicide Census data.

As with previous years, Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, had to request special permission to exceed the usual speaking limit in the parliamentary debate, as reading the names alone takes longer than the five minutes normally allocated to MPs.

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The reading came just months after the government published its Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy in December.

The plan sets out proposals to tackle harmful behaviours among boys, teach pupils about healthy relationships and the impact of pornography, and better equip teachers to intervene early.

Women’s organisations welcomed the strategy as a milestone but warned it falls far short of the funding needed to meet the government’s ambition of halving violence against women and girls within a decade.

In a statement following the strategy’s publication, the Femicide Census noted that the government had, for the first time, used the term “femicide” — the killing of women and girls — within its national strategy.

However, the group argued that the strategy appeared to treat intimate-partner and family-perpetrated killings of women, domestic homicide, as separate from the concept of femicide, rather than part of it.

The organisation said its research shows that on average, a woman is killed by a man every three days in the UK, adding that previous national strategies tackling violence against women and girls had not explicitly addressed the killing of women and girls as a strategic priority.

"It is women and girls who will pay the price if Labour and their strategy fail,” the group said.

Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, Phillips said: “The scale of violence against women and girls shames our society.”

After finishing the list, she added: “There is always a name that has to be written on as I come in – to give you an idea of the regularity".

One name had to be added to the list moments before Phillips entered Parliament, conveying the frequency of such crimes.