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<p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested and does not currently
collect data from police forces on acid and other corrosive attacks as part of its
regular data collection. It has been estimated from a previous voluntary data collection
commissioned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council covering the period October to
December 2017 that there are around 800 corrosive attacks per annum in England and
Wales.</p><p>We have been working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council on improving
recording and will be collecting data on corrosive attacks as part of the Annual Data
Requirement on police forces from April 2019 onwards. Data will be published in the
future as part of the Office for National Statistics’ quarterly crime statistics.</p>
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