Question follow-through · 11351
Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department and the College of Policing have issued guidance to address the physical-injury threshold in frontline police triage of domestic abuse reports.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department and the College of Policing have issued guidance to address the physical-injury threshold in frontline police triage of domestic abuse reports.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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29 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 makes clear that domestic abuse extends beyond physical injury to include non-physical forms of harm, including controlling or coercive behaviour and economic abuse, such as coerced debt.The College of Policing is the standard ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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