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<p> </p><p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested. Individual police
forces are responsible for collecting information relating to the Domestic Violence
Disclosure Scheme.<br><br>As part of its commitment to take forward the recommendations
arising from the report published in March 2014 by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary
"Everyone’s business: Improving the police response to domestic abuse",
the Home Office is taking forward proposals to develop national data standards that
enable consistent and comparable data on domestic abuse to be collected by the police
and submitted as part of the Annual Data Return from April 2015. We also plan to evaluate
by the end of the financial year how roll-out of the Domestic Violence Disclosure
Scheme has been implemented, and we will be working with the police to collect data
on the number of national disclosures to support this evaluation. <br><br>In addition,
the police are incorporating the Scheme into their action plans setting out how they
are taking steps to improve their approach to domestic abuse.</p><p> </p>
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