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Written question asked by David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party) on Friday, 2 May 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 7 May 2008. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Thursday, 15 May 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.


Domestic Violence

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of domestic violence were reported to the police in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last three years, broken down by region.
Answer

Data on the number of domestic violence incidents reported to the police in England and Wales are collected as part of a Statutory Performance Indicator, over the past three years under the Police Performance Assessment Framework.The number of domestic violence incidents for 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 broken down by police force area in England and Wales is given in the following table.

Number of reported domestic violence incidents
Incidents
Force area 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Avon and Somerset 14,537 14,714 15,532
Bedfordshire 7,486 7,800 7,341
Cambridgeshire ¹— 7,081 7,501
Cheshire 4,115 6,709 5,161
City of London 102 83 96
Cleveland 9,689 12,493 6,083
Cumbria 5,568 3,809 4,372
Derbyshire 14,761 12,159 11,818
Devon and Cornwall 20,123 21,417 22,828
Dorset 4,016 4,962 5,458
Durham 8,904 8,218 8,163
Dyfed Powys 3,890 3,895 3,871
Essex 14,399 10,785 15,225
Gloucestershire ²6,236 6,693 8,237
Greater Manchester 56,778 60,977 64,727
Gwent 4,329 4,787 6,757
Hampshire 18,787 ¹— 22,682
Hertfordshire 12,783 10,514 10,926
Humberside 7,519 12,500 12,752
Kent 18,321 19,464 19,087
Lancashire 22,514 22,020 22,217
Leicestershire 3,375 12,935 9,918
Lincolnshire 7,117 5,965 4,912
Merseyside 17,605 23,292 25,568
Metropolitan Police 60,838 59,905 69,438
Norfolk 5,813 8,008 7,893
North Wales 1,551 4,819 10,188
North Yorkshire 4,660 4,276 5,986
Northamptonshire 7,012 2,818 7,850
Northumbria 22,879 22,871 24,277
Nottinghamshire 4,149 15,279 17,534
South Wales 14,797 16,791 15,421
South Yorkshire 5,225 6,276 17,825
Staffordshire 6,714 16,234 18,659
Suffolk 5,515 5,532 4,314
Surrey 11,563 12,498 11,742
Sussex 15,604 14,710 14,374
Thames Valley 14,884 18,124 16,391
Warwickshire 3,455 908 6,932
West Mercia 8,486 11,684 12,799
West Midlands 33,667 38,333 40,233
West Yorkshire 34,914 34,857 34,481
Wiltshire 9,067 6,710 6,600
Total³ 547,511 593,905 664,169
¹ Data not provided by force
² January 2004 to December 2004
³ Excluding unavailable data

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
475 c1732-3W; 204376
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Domestic abuse
Link
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