Ms Sarah Benson:

That will only examine domestic violence only in the context of where there is sexual violence. The data in the last domestic violence national prevalence survey was collected in 2003 - nearly 20 years ago. While the national strategy eludes to continuing to gather data, it makes a worrying comment that could influence the commitment to initiate a comprehensive national domestic violence and abuse research team, which eludes to waiting until this CSO study is done to inform future ones. That just would not be acceptable because that would be at least five years. We are very out of date on that. On forms of abuse that are perpetrated, such as online stalking, harassment and such things, we have no line of sight in terms of prevalence. In addition, there is the criminal justice hub. We do not know the status of that, but it is a very basic and absolute obligation under Istanbul to have data coming from our criminal justice system. That was pre-Covid, at what I thought was an advanced stage, around the connecting the PULSE, court and probation systems with simple data that would track a perpetrator, but would give us such an insight if it gathers the sex of the victim and perpetrator and their relationship. We do not have that data in terms of our justice system. That is the vehicle where that should be captured, but I am not sure the status of it.