I’ve found relief’s quote, it’s from the telegraph. Did you even read the report? Did you even read this article? Here’s the bit your quote missed out:
They do not take into account the new offence of coercive and controlling behaviour, which came into effect in 2015, the ONS said.
"New survey questions to better estimate experiences of this type of abuse have been introduced into the survey from April 2017 and estimates from these questions will be available in 2018," it said in its report.
Professor Nicole Westmarland, director of the Durham University Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse, said the change could lead to the downward trend being reversed.
She said: "The ways in which domestic abuse is perpetrated may be changing, with physical abuse becoming more and more socially unacceptable, and new opportunities for abuse opening up with the development of new technologies and forms of social media.
"Excluding sexual violence by partners and ex-partners and not properly measuring coercive and controlling behaviours means that a large proportion of domestic abuse is being hidden.
"If these were included we would see an increase, particularly in terms of the abuse of women."
The ONS suggested that the inclusion of the coercive control figures could also widen the gap between men and women.
Weird article to pick since it directly disagrees with your point, but I think that’s probably because you couldn’t find one that says ‘male violence isn’t an issue, this is as good as it’s going to get because of history or something’.