Domestic abuse shockingly far more common in England & Wales than in Scotland

Professor John Robertson OBA

There were 30 227 cases of reported domestic abuse in Scotland in 2024-2025.1

All things being equal, you might expect the figure for England & Wales to be around 11 times greater, reflecting a population around 11 times greater – 330 000?

In England & Wales in 2024-2025:

The police flagged 797,530 offences as domestic abuse-related in YE June 2025, including 623,430 violence against the person offences.2

Based on these official statistics, domestic abuse seems to be more than twice as common in England & Wales.

Sources:

  1. https://www.copfs.gov.uk/publications/domestic-abuse-and-stalking-charges-in-scotland-2024-2025/html/
  2. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/latest#domestic-abuse
No doubt there are differences in recording which will encourage some to question the above content but imagine it was the other way round would they do the same? There are serious difficulties in comparing drug deaths statistics across the UK and beyond but media continue to ignore these in pursuit of 'drug death capital of Europe' headers.

3 thoughts on “Domestic abuse shockingly far more common in England & Wales than in Scotland”

  1. I’ve said it before John, can we please not encourage this ‘E&W’ crap, there is no such police force.

    I do realise ONS bulletins such as the one you quoted from should be treated as authoritative, but the Welsh and English figures will assuredly be known, and I’d bet my last dollar the reason for ‘E&W’ is to dilute E’s greater issues…

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    1. Hi Bob

      I’ve never seen separate data for England & Wales. My wee pal Grok says I could get them from the four forces in Wales and aggregate them for Wales then subtract from the ONS data.

      You’ll understand, I hope, why I won ‘t be doing that soon.

      rhoi cyfle i mi, dyn mawr

      John wedi blino’n lân

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  2. The Law was changed in England, recently, to give abused women legal aid without having to sell the house. Abused women live in unsafe places because they did not get legal aid and manage to get away. Legal aid has to be paid back in any case.

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