HC Deb 23 March 2004 vol 419 cc764-5W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Minister for Women how many reported incidents of domestic violence there were in the Vale of York on 1 January; and if she will make a statement. [156468]

Paul Goggins

I have been asked to reply.

Domestic violence is not separately identified in the recorded crime statistics collected by the Home Office or in the statistics of court proceedings. However, the British Crime Survey (BCS) routinely collects data on the prevalence and number of incidents of domestic violence in England and Wales from the main "face-to-face" part of the survey. In the 2002–03 BCS, the rate of domestic violence in England and Wales as a whole was 120 per 10,000 adults, and 113 in Yorkshire and Humberside. The BCS is unable to provide domestic violence data at more local levels.