Domestic Violence Mini-site
Parliamentary Questions
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women have been killed by (a) intimate partners and (b) family members in incidents in each of the last 5 years for which statistics are available; and in how many of these cases children were also killed. [178354]
Paul Goggins: The latest available information on homicide is published in Home Office Statistical Bulletin number 01/04, "Crime in England and Wales 2002/2003: Supplementary Volume 1: Homicide and Gun Crime". It provides information on gender of victims and relationship of victim to suspect. The Bulletin does not identify individual cases where children were also killed.
For England and Wales, the available information on women homicide victims killed by partners/ex-partners and others known to them is given in the table.
| Partner/ex-partner | |
1998–99 | 76 | 82 |
1999–2000 | 88 | 55 |
2000–01 | 98 | 76 |
2001–02 | 120 | 64 |
2002–03 | 107 | 85 |
Last update: Tuesday, October 17, 2006