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Domestic Abuse

Commons · Question 11350 · Tabled 18 Jun 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 29 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by Gregory Stafford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the persistence of a physical-injury threshold in frontline police triage of domestic abuse reports, in the co

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 29 Jun 2026

Controlling or Coercive Behaviour prosecutions have increased from 3,999 in 2023/24 to 5,374 in 2024/25, and 3,293 in the first half of 2025/26. However, we are aware that this offence is still under identified in how frontline police triage domestic abus...