Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of staffing levels in Police Public Protection Units at (a) UK and (b) force level.

Decisions on the size, composition and deployment of a police force's workforce are operational matters for individual chief constables, working with their Police and Crime Commissioners.

HMIC's progress report on the police response to domestic abuse, published in December 2015, found that forces have continued largely to protect their dedicated teams or other resources that focus on public protection work.