Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of women being stalked have been reported to the police in each of the last five years; and how many people have been convicted of stalking in that same period.

The Home Office does not hold the requested information centrally.

The Home Office collects data on the number of stalking offences recorded by the police forces in England and Wales, although these data cannot be broken down by gender of victim. Data on stalking offences have been published since 2014/15. Prior to this date, there were included in the harassment offence classification. These are published by the Office for National Statistics and can be found in Table A4 of the latest Crime in England and Wales publication:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesbulletintables

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of offences that led to conviction. Data on convictions are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. They have supplied information on the number of convictions for stalking and this is given in the table.