Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the dog attacks recorded by the police in each year since 2010.

The Home Office collects data from police forces in England and Wales on the number of offences recorded of an “Owner or person in charge allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control in any place in England or Wales (whether or not a public place) injuring any person or assistance dog” and of an "Owner or person in charge allowing a dog to enter a non-public place and injure any person" recorded by the police in England and Wales, since 2015/16.

Data provided in the table below is from 38 territorial police forces and British Transport Police in England and Wales who have been able to supply this information.

Note: excludes Devon and Cornwall, Humberside, Staffordshire and West Midlands Police Force Areas.