Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of domestic violence were reported to police in London in each of the last five years.

The Office for National Statistics publishes information on the number of incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police. This information is published by police force area in a cross government statistical bulletin ‘Domestic abuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2016’, which can be found here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/domesticabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2016