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Question reference: S7W-01683

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Kirsten Oswald on 29 July 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide a breakdown by local authority for male victims and female suspected perpetrator domestic abuse incidents in each of the last five financial years.

Table 1 shows the number of domestic abuse incidents recorded by police, where information was known, showed that the incident involved a male victim and female suspected perpetrator broken down by local authority from
2020-21 to 2024-25.

Table 1: Number of domestic abuse incidents recorded by police involving a male victim and female suspected perpetrator, where information was known, by local authority 2020-21 to 2024-25

Local Authority	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25
Aberdeen City	210	165	128	148	190
Aberdeenshire	125	92	126	119	124
Angus	149	159	161	196	145
Argyll and Bute	88	80	83	83	81
City of Edinburgh	507	489	482	525	489
Clackmannanshire	137	96	80	99	70
Dumfries and Galloway	147	112	117	149	168
Dundee City	321	239	284	303	384
East Ayrshire	225	214	243	199	184
East Dunbartonshire	97	78	92	41	56
East Lothian	89	97	110	131	128
East Renfrewshire	78	75	66	27	43
Falkirk	302	289	227	248	287
Fife	906	837	780	738	890
Glasgow City	1,313	1,171	1,139	645	739
Highland	366	350	300	300	359
Inverclyde	125	57	63	36	64
Midlothian	109	113	83	107	120
Moray	93	90	75	76	94
Na h-Eileanan Siar	15	18	21	23	34
North Ayrshire	232	203	183	220	225
North Lanarkshire	759	717	688	625	606
Orkney Islands	18	8	8	18	17
Perth and Kinross	132	125	185	164	200
Renfrewshire	324	147	148	127	131
Scottish Borders	155	153	153	144	137
Shetland Islands	22	16	29	12	16
South Ayrshire	202	177	149	184	165
South Lanarkshire	554	546	545	541	611
Stirling	91	98	108	124	131
West Dunbartonshire	166	144	119	114	130
West Lothian	319	247	286	294	262
Total	8,376	7,402	7,261	6,760	7,280

Source: Official Statistics on Domestic Abuse in Scotland, 2024-25