Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many persons were (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted of the offence of coercive control in each Police Force area in England and Wales in each year since 2016.

The Home Office does not hold centrally the information requested.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of arrests for notifiable offences on a financial year basis. However, data are collected at the offence group level only (i.e. ‘violence against the person) and the data cannot be broken down to specifically identify the number of arrests for controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship (coercive control).

Data on the number of arrests are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales

The Home Office holds data on the number of coercive control offences that resulted in a charge/summons for a subset of police forces in England and Wales, but not the number of people charged.

Convictions data is the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.