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Written Question
Domestic Abuse: Homicide
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing new policies to help improve protection for people at risk of domestic homicide in all regions.

Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)

In the 2022 Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan the government outlined a package of measures to reduce domestic homicides and reform the Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) process.

DHRs are reviews into deaths related to domestic abuse which seek to identify what lessons can be learnt and implemented to prevent future deaths.

In June 2023, we launched the online DHR Library to help ensure police and partners have easy access to material to learn from previous homicides and prevent future deaths linked to domestic abuse.

The implementation of reforms to DHRs will improve our understanding and drive down the frequency of domestic homicides.

The Home Office also funds the collection of data on deaths related to domestic abuse through the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Domestic Homicide Project. The project brings together data and information on prior agency knowledge of victims and risk factors to improve the evidence base and subsequent policy responses for preventing domestic homicides.

To gain protection from domestic abuse a protective order can be applied for. Police can apply for a Domestic Violence Protection Order, victims can apply for a Non-Molestation Order and criminal courts can impose a Restraining Order on acquittal or conviction of a criminal offence. The introduction of the new Domestic Abuse Protection Notice and Order, will help simplify and strengthen the protection for victims avaliable, introducing new features like mandatory notification requirements and electronic monitoring (“tagging”). The new order will be piloted in Greater Manchester, the London Boroughs of Croydon, Sutton, and Bromley, and with the British Transport Police.


Parliamentary Research
Israel-Iran April 2024: UK and international response - CBP-10002
Apr. 23 2024

Found: EU and the United States were among those to announce they would continue these sanctions in their domestic


Select Committee
Atlantic Council, and University of Nottingham

Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024

Inquiry: Defence in the Grey Zone
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: Elisabeth Braw: The moment it involves kinetic violence, it leaves the grey zone, but the troubling


Select Committee
Police Service of Northern Ireland, Operation Kenova, and Kenova Victim Focus Group

Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024

Committee: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (Department: Northern Ireland Office)

Found: Individuals, particularly this group of individuals, have experienced loss, trauma and the horrendous violence


Deposited Papers

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.
Document: 056._Domestic_abuse_V26.0.pdf (PDF)

Found: Domestic abuse: economic and financial Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme Identifying and protecting


Deposited Papers

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.
Document: 175._The_size_criteria_for_renters_V7.0.pdf (PDF)

Found: Victim of domestic abuse This exemption applies to a victim of domestic abuse .


Deposited Papers

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.
Document: 132._Protecting_claimants_at_risk_V10.0.pdf (PDF)

Found: stealing, selling asse ts, fra ud, misuse or mis appropriation of property, poss essions or benefits • domestic


Deposited Papers

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.
Document: 029.Child_in_considerable_distress_V5.0.pdf (PDF)

Found: abuse where a police report may be available • experiencing or witnessing violence and abuse other


Deposited Papers

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.
Document: 108._Mortgages_V19.0.pdf (PDF)

Found: Claimants fleeing domestic violence must be treated a s occupying their home and continue to receive


Deposited Papers

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.
Document: 199._Work_and_Health_Programme_and_Pioneer_V26.0.pdf (PDF)

Found: the past o care leavers o refugees o An Afghan resettler o A Ukrainian evacuee o victims of domestic