Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s report, The economic and social costs of domestic abuse, published on 2 January 2019, whether her Department has made an assessment of what crimes are typically experienced by victims on a repeated and ongoing basis outside of the context of domestic abuse.

The Home Office has published two reports capturing the costs of crimes that are experienced by victims on a repeated and ongoing basis outside the context of domestic abuse. These reports are namely the ‘Economic and socials costs of modern slavery’ (2018) and ‘The economic and social cost of contact child sexual abuse’ (2021). The methodology applied to calculate costs of repeated offences is consistent between the reports.

The ONS publishes data from the Crime Survey in England and Wales on the proportion of victims who were victimised more than once, and the proportion of incidents experienced by repeat victims in the period between May 2020 and March 2021 (available at Crime in England and Wales: Annual Trend and Demographic Tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk), Table D8-9).

Data on repeat victimisation is also available for sexual offences in the year ending 2018 (Available at Sexual offences: appendix tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk), Table 17)

References:

The economic and social costs of domestic abuse (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Economic and social costs of modern slavery - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The economic and social cost of contact child sexual abuse - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)