§ Mrs. Curtis-ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 21 December 1999,Official Report, column 484W, on domestic violence, if the improvements in systems which will allow the information on domestic assaults to be collated have been made; and if the Office Court Proceedings Database is available on line or in a format available to the public. [121696]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe improvements referred to in the reply were with respect to police systems for recording domestic assaults. These have not yet been made and will be undertaken as part of the work associated with implementation of the National Strategy for Police Information Systems.
51WAggregated data from the Court Proceedings Database are published annually in the command paper "Criminal statistics, England and Wales" together with four supplementary volumes. Copies of these publications are available in the Library. Some aggregated data can be found on the Home Office website and more will appear in the future. Detailed information is available on floppy disk in Excel format, this being known as the Home Office Court Appearances System (HOCAS). Copies of the relevant disks are available in the Library.