Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of domestic abuse to the public purse in 2020-21.
The Home Office does not hold information the cost of domestic by constituency.
The Home Office estimated the social and economic costs of domestic abuse to be £66 billion for the victims identified in England and Wales in 2016/17 (which equates to £74 billion in today’s prices).