§ Ms. RichardsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of domestic violence were reported to the police in the last year for which figures are available; and how many resulted in(a) committal proceedings and (b) convictions in the last year for which figures are available.
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§ Mr. John PattenInformation on notifiable offences of violence against the person is published annually in table 2.8 of "Criminal Statistics England and Wales". The figures for 1989 are published in table 6 of Home Office Statistical Bulletin 10/90. Regular information on domestic violence is not reported separately to this Department by the police forces in England and Wales. However, detailed information on homicide is presented in chapter 4 of the above publication. Some incomplete information was published in "Criminal Statistics" in 1979 and 1980. In addition, results obtained from a special survey of violent crime recorded by the police and from the 1988 British Crime Survey were published in Home Office Research Bulletin No. 27. There is also some information in chapter 7 of "Domestic Violence" Home Office Research Study 107. Copies of all these publications are available in the Library. Information on prosecutions and convictions is not collected in sufficient detail to distinguish domestic violence.
§ Ms. RichardsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individual police forces have dedicated domestic violence units.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThis information is not collected centrally, but I understand that dedicated units have been established by three forces to date.