Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a domestic violence register for people convicted of such violence.

The Government is fully committed to tackling domestic abuse and doing all we can to protect victims and robustly target perpetrators.

Those convicted of domestic abuse related offences are already captured on the Police National Computer. Where appropriate, they will also be captured on other systems such as on the Dangerous Persons database and managed by police and probation under Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements.

The Government’s focus is on ensuring we make better use of existing systems, rather than creating new databases or registers for different offences, which risks a disjointed police and offender management response.

In addition, the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme has also been rolled out nationally to inform and alert new partners about a perpetrator's previous offending.