Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of domestic abuse cases reported to her Department resulted in a prosecution in each of the last five years.

The Office for National Statistics publishes information on the number of domestic abuse incidents and crimes recorded by the police and the proportion of domestic abuse offences that resulted in a charge or a summons. The Crown Prosecution Service also publishes information on the number of domestic abuse prosecutions. Both sets of data are included in a cross government statistical bulletin ‘Domestic abuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2017’, which can be found at the link below:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/domesticabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2017