Domestic Abuse

(asked on 18th January 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 26th January 2022

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).

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