Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many restraining orders were issued in each of the last three years.
The total number of restraining orders issued at Magistrates Courts and Crown Courts in each of the last three years can be found in the table below. The Ministry of Justice will publish court outcome data for 2018 on 16 May 2019.
Table 1. Number of restraining orders issued in England and Wales, 2015-2017.
2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
23,057 | 25,293 | 21,207 |