Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) domestic violence protection notices and (b) domestic violence protection orders have been issued in each of the last five years.

Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs) were rolled out across all 43 police forces in England Wales from 8 March 2014.

Table A shows ONS published data for the number of Domestic Violence Protection Notices both applied for and granted by the police in the last two financial years. Data prior to 2017 is not available.

Source: Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) Not all police forces could provide data to HMICFRS, therefore the total of applications granted may be greater than the total made.

Table B below shows the available information on the number of Domestic Violence Protection Orders that were issued by the courts during the period in question.

(Data only available from December 2014 as the Magistrates’ Courts case management and management information systems only began separately recording Domestic Violence Protection Orders from that date.)

The draft Domestic Abuse Bill published on January 21 includes measures to introduce a new Domestic Abuse Protection Notice and Domestic Abuse Protection Order. This new order would bring together the strongest elements of existing orders to provide better protection to victims of domestic abuse.