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...