Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions made by the Crown Prosecution Service involved domestic abuse between individuals in same-sex relationships, by (a) gender and (b) county in England and Wales, in each year since 2010.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) collects finalised prosecutions data showing the sex of defendants for cases flagged as involving domestic abuse. Some, more limited, information is also available showing the identified relationship between defendant and complainant and whether the relationship is between people of the same or different sex.
The table below shows the number of defendants prosecuted for domestic abuse where a relationship was identified as same sex (partner, ex-partner, spouse/civil partner or former spouse/civil partner), during each of the last ten years. It also highlights the number of defendants where the relationship has been recorded. This data is limited, which results in the number of defendants with an identified relationship being under-recorded.
| Female Defendants | Male Defendants | % of Relationships Recorded |
2010-2011 | 28 | 56 | 16.7% |
2011-2012 | 45 | 77 | 30.0% |
2012-2013 | 54 | 84 | 47.7% |
2013-2014 | 80 | 97 | 52.7% |
2014-2015 | 127 | 129 | 55.4% |
2015-2016 | 160 | 186 | 55.6% |
2016-2017 | 136 | 141 | 52.4% |
2017-2018 | 108 | 130 | 48.7% |
2018-2019 | 88 | 137 | 48.9% |
2019-2020 | 84 | 144 | 56.4% |
Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System
While the CPS does not collate prosecutions data by county, data is available showing the number of prosecutions in each of the regional Areas of the CPS. The tables below provide the same information as the table above, broken down for each CPS Area.
Female Defendants | ||||||||||
| 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 |
Cymru Wales | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 10 |
East Midlands | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
Eastern | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
London North | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 3 |
London South | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 11 |
Merseyside & Cheshire | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
North East | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
North West | 1 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 29 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 12 |
South East | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 4 |
South West | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
Thames and Chiltern | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
Wessex | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
West Midlands | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 26 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
Yorkshire & Humberside | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System
Male Defendants | ||||||||||
| 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 |
Cymru Wales | 1 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 14 |
East Midlands | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 9 |
Eastern | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 21 |
London North | 1 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 12 |
London South | 8 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 13 |
Merseyside & Cheshire | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 |
North East | 9 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
North West | 12 | 21 | 12 | 11 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 17 | 18 | 15 |
South East | 5 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 3 |
South West | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
Thames and Chiltern | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 9 |
Wessex | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 9 |
West Midlands | 5 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 6 |
Yorkshire & Humberside | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 16 |
Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System