Written questions

Domestic Abuse: Information Sharing

2026-05-17 · Home Office · 2567 · Official question

Mr Will Forster

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Clare’s Law.

Answer

We know that more needs to be done to address issues and inconsistencies in the way that the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (also known as ‘Clare’s Law’) is currently being implemented across forces in England and Wales.In the recently published Viol...