Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential link between depression and the perpetration of acts of domestic violence.

The Department has not made an assessment of the potential link between depression and the perpetration of acts of domestic violence. However, the Home Office, which leads for the Government on domestic violence, published an analysis of domestic homicide reviews in November 2016 which included analysis on the link between mental ill health and domestic violence.