"Figure 8: The proportion of domestic abuse-related pre-charge cases that were administratively finalised was 8% in the year ending March 2020","" "Proportion of domestic abuse-related pre-charge decisions that were legal decisions compared to administratively finalised, England and Wales, year ending March 2015 to year ending March 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Data from the CPS are not designated as official statistics. 2. In 2019, CPS altered their data collection methodology to include cases from Central Casework divisions in the figures for England and Wales. This change has been applied to all historic data, therefore data may differ slightly from figures previously published. 3. Total pre-charge decisions data are based on the date the charging advice was completed and provided to the police. Therefore, year ending March 2020 data may include pre-charge decisions on cases referred by the police to the CPS in the year ending March 2020 or earlier. Data on pre-charge decisions are also not directly comparable with data on the number of prosecutions, which cover cases finalised during the year ending March 2020. 4. Administratively finalised cases are those that have been referred to the CPS for a pre-charge decision but where no legal decision has been made. For example, the CPS has asked the police to provide further information where there is insufficient evidence to make a charging decision or the CPS has advised the police to charge but the suspect has not been charged because the suspect has not answered police bail or cannot be located. Administratively finalised decisions are not legal decisions and may not be the end of the case. 5. Less than 1% of cases in each year were categorised as ”other” but have not been included in this chart. Figures therefore do not sum to 100. " "Unit","%" "","" "","Proportion administratively finalised","Proportion legal decision " "2015","4.40","95.55" "2016","4.68","95.27" "2017","4.16","95.81" "2018","7.35","92.62" "2019","7.99","91.99" "2020","7.96","92.01"