Domestic Abuse: Homicide

(asked on 9th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department maintains a national tracker for recommendations made in Domestic Homicide Reviews; and if she will publish data on implementation rates.


Answered by
Jess Phillips Portrait
Jess Phillips
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 16th March 2026

Domestic homicide reviews (DHR) offer a vital opportunity for national and local agencies, local communities and society as a whole to learn lessons from domestic abuse related deaths and treat every death as preventable.

Ensuring that lessons identified through DHRs are not only recorded but acted upon is essential to driving meaningful change. That is why the Home Office has implemented a new process for logging, and distributing national recommendations, including an internal central database for national recommendations.

This Government has also committed to sharing all national recommendations from DHRs with the Ministerial Violence Against Women and Girls Board, as part of the cross-Government Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy published in December 2025. This will strengthen ministerial oversight across responsible government departments to ensure that recommendations lead to meaningful change and coordinated action.

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