You asked
I would like to know what the current conviction rate is for domestic violence and abuse.
I have been unable to find any such data on successful convictions in the UK.
Could you please point me in the right direction if you have these figures available?
We said
Thank you for your enquiry on domestic abuse convictions.
The following publication, Domestic abuse and the criminal justice system, England and Wales: November 2020, contains data from the Crown Prosecution Service on convictions of domestic abuse-related cases. Specifically, Table 14 of the accompanying appendix tables shows the proportion of domestic abuse-related prosecutions that were successful in securing a conviction in the year ending March 2020.
The data in our domestic abuse release only covers England and Wales.
Statistics for Scotland and Northern Ireland are produced and published separately from data for England and Wales:
- Data for Scotland are published by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, available here: https://www.copfs.gov.uk/publications/statistics
- Data for Northern Ireland are published by the Public Prosecution Service, available here: https://www.ppsni.gov.uk/publications
If you would like any further assistance, please email us at CrimeStatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask.