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date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to prepare for the commencement of the Marriage and Civil Partnerships (Minimum Age) Act 2022.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	902364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Act is planned to come into force on 27 February 2023.</p><p>In advance, officials at the General Register Office have been working to ensure that their IT systems are updated so that it is no longer possible for Registrars to accept notice for 16 and 17 year olds to marry or enter into a civil partnership.</p><p>Secondary legislation required as a result of the Act has been drafted and is currently being reviewed and agreed across Government.</p><p>Officials have been working to ensure impacted groups such as the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community and schools are aware of the change in law.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 22/11/2022 14:34:14 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1301359

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to end child marriage across England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	166395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government continues to listen carefully to the debate on the legal age of marriage. Justice officials liaise closely with officials in other departments that have an interest in this matter and in forced marriage, which Government made an offence in 2014.</p><p>I am aware of my Hon. Friend’s Private Members’ Bill which seeks to raise the age for marriage and civil partnership formation in England Wales from sixteen or seventeen to eighteen years of age. It also seeks to provide for related offences including an offence of failing to protect a child from entering marriage. Her Bill would also place a requirement on certain professionals to notify the police, if any such marriage has taken place, or could take place, and seeks to provide for a new child marriage protection order.</p><p>My noble and learned friend Lord Wolfson, in his new role as minister for family justice, will arrange to meet with my hon. friend shortly to discuss these important issues with her.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 15/03/2021 17:57:07 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

627424

registered interest
date	02/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to limit the potential re-traumatisation of vulnerable 16 and 17 year old victims of sexual abuse or exploitation in the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Pauline Latham
uin	51605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure that vulnerable and intimidated victims and witnesses get the support they need and have the confidence to come forward. A range of measures already exist to help reduce their anxiety, including giving evidence through live-link to the courtroom from a different room in the court, or away from the court building altogether, and the use of a Registered Intermediary. We doubled the number of Registered Intermediaries at the end of 2015 to increase the number available to help vulnerable and intimidated victims and witnesses give evidence.</p><p> </p><p>We are also rolling out recorded pre-trial cross-examination in the Crown Courts from next year so that vulnerable witnesses do not have to give their evidence at trial. In addition to this, we are requiring publicly-funded advocates in sexual offences cases to undertake specialist training on working with vulnerable victims and witnesses.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 10/11/2016 15:31:32 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

626686

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Witnesses: Video Recordings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to start the national roll-out of pre-recorded cross-examination for young vulnerable witnesses following the pilot of section 28 of the Youth and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Pauline Latham
uin	51414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>The roll-out of pre-trial cross examination for all vulnerable witnesses, including children, will commence in January 2017. The roll-out across all Crown Courts should be complete by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 09/11/2016 17:15:04 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham