Asked by: Robert Buckland (Conservative - South Swindon)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, whether any domestic violence cases have led to prosecutions for coercive control since the inclusion of coercive control in the Government's definition of domestic violence in March 2013.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Robert Buckland (Conservative - South Swindon)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many domestic violence cases have led to prosecutions for non-injurious behaviours.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Robert Buckland (Conservative - South Swindon)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many cases of domestic violence have led to prosecutions for psychological abuse in each of the last five years.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Robert Buckland (Conservative - South Swindon)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, whether any cases of domestic violence have led to prosecutions for stalking when the stalking behaviours occurred before the victim and perpetrator had separated.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service do not identify the number of people prosecuted for domestic violence that have led to prosecutions for stalking where the stalking behaviour occurred before the victim and perpetrator had separated. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur disproportionate cost.