Mr Gabriel Lam asked the Minister for Social and Family Development (a) over the past five years, how many domestic violence cases involved male victims; (b) how many sought protection orders or support services; and (c) whether the Ministry will publish gender-disaggregated data to better understand and address under-reporting of such cases among men.
Answer
The member may wish to refer to the Domestic Violence Trends Report 2025 for available sex-disaggregated data.
2 From 2020 to 2024, there was an average of about 2,000 Personal Protection Order applications per year, of which approximately 25% were made by male victim-survivors of domestic violence.