According to new estimates, one in eight women were victims of sexual harassment, domestic misconduct or staring in the previous year.
Statistics have been published by the office as part of the National Statistics (ONS). Crime survey for England and Wales for the year by March 2025.
The survey found that 5.2 million people, aged 16 and above (10.6%), were likely to experience one or more of these crime types – but 8.4%of men had a percentage higher for women (12.8%).
This is the first time an estimate is composed of joint circulation of three crimes and is the main solution used by ONS to monitor the government’s ambition to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG) in a decade.
The home office will provide more expansion at the end of this year how it will be used with other data to monitor its progress.
The individual breakdown of the spread of the crime listed in the survey suggests:
- 2.9% (about 1.4 million people) chased
- 7.8% (about 3.8 million people) experienced domestic misuse
- 1.9% (about 900,000 people) experienced sexual harassment
- 8.6% (about 4.2 million people) experienced some forms of harassment
From March 2024, a slightly higher estimate of 5.4 million people in the previous year, or 11.3%, experienced one or more of these crimes in the previous year.
But ONS warned against comparing between years as estimates were still in development and subject to change.
A Report by the UK expenses, Published in January, it was found that the efforts of the home office to deal with Vawg’s “serious and growing problem” were still “not better results” for the victims.
It was found in the National Audit Office that there were three separate strategies with the aim of reducing Vawg since 2010 – including the construction of a dedicated team in 2021 under the previous orthodox government.
But the report found that the “small evidence” department had improved earlier strategies.
In response, the Home Office said that the report had seen the “failure to give systemic changes” by the report, and this labor was “giving a step in the government’s response”.
Meanwhile, in the crime survey released on Thursday, separate data shows that there were 9.4 million incidents of overall crime in England and Wales, which were marching up to 7% from the previous year.
The largest driver for this was a 31% increase in around 4.2 million incidents in fraud – the most estimated number in the survey in 2017.
ONS said the trends in the crime registered police were largely unchanged.
The number of shopkeeping incidents increased to a record high for the fourth serial year, while housewives were reduced to an 11 -year low.
Some 530,643 shoplifting offenses were logged in in 2024/25, which was the highest in 2023/24 since 444,022 to 20% and current police recording practices in 2002/03.
The theft from the individual’s crimes remains at a record level, with 151,220 recorded from 131,584 to March in the last 12 months.
