Question follow-through · 22712

Domestic Abuse: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of women murdered by domestic abusers in (a) England and Wales and (b) Merseyside in each of the last five years.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 8 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 15 Jan 2025
Answer: 15 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of women murdered by domestic abusers in (a) England and Wales and (b) Merseyside in each of the last five years.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
The latest published data on the number domestic homicides between 2018/19 and 2022/23 in (a) England and Wales and (b) Merseyside can be found in the table below.Table: Number of domestic homicides of women aged 16 and over, Merseyside and England and Wa...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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