To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of domestic violence in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland constituency have been reported to Cumbria Police in each year since 1997. (263427)

The Home Office has collected the number of recorded domestic violence incidents for police force areas since 2003-04, before that the figures were collated by HMIC.

The figures for Cumbria police force are included in the following table, the data for Copeland constituency are not held centrally.