Domestic Violence: Greater Manchester

Mr. Crausby
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people have been convicted of offences related to domestic violence in (a) Bolton and (b) Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.

The Solicitor-General
I have been asked to reply.

The following number of people have been convicted of offences relating to domestic violence in Bolton in each of the last four years:

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|    |Convictions|
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|2006|222        |
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|2007|225        |
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|2008|221        |
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|2009|281        |
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The following number of people have been convicted of offences relating to domestic violence in Greater Manchester in each of the last four years:

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|    |Convictions|
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|2006|2,188      |
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|2007|2,873      |
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|2008|2,992      |
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|2009|3,111      |
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Due to improvements made in respect of domestic violence identification from 2006, no complete or comparable data are available for earlier periods.