Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the effect provisions in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 relating to pre-charge bail on victims domestic abuse.

The Government completed its public consultation into the pre-charge bail system on 29 May 2020. This included consideration of the impact on victims to ensure that pre-charge bail is used in a proportionate way which safeguards all involved. Analysis of the results from this consultation is ongoing and the Government response will be published later this year.

Pre-charge bail, including the use of conditions to protect domestic abuse and other victims, continues to be available where it is necessary and proportionate. Decisions on pre-charge bail are operational matters for individual police forces and will be assessed on a case by case basis.