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1301980

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
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 recent assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy of (i) the current age of consent for marriage and (ii) parental or judicial consent to marry and (b) effect of that level of consent on the risk of 16 and 17 year olds being coerced into marriage.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	167266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>Forced marriage, whatever the age, was made an offence in 2014. Since 2017, lifelong anonymity has been available to victims of forced marriage.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that the number of people marrying in England and Wales at 16 or 17 has been in decline over the years. In 2017, the latest year for which statistics are available, 183 of the people entering 235,910 opposite sex marriages did so at those ages.</p><p> </p><p>Primary legislation would be required to raise the marriageable age to 18 and thereby to remove the existing requirement for parental or judicial consent at 16 or 17. The Government continues to listen carefully to the debate on the legal age of marriage. My noble friend Lord Wolfson, in his new role as Minister for family justice, will arrange to meet with my Honourable friend, the member for Mid Derbyshire, to discuss her Private Members’ Bill on these important issues.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 167267 question first answered 16/03/2021 18:18:53 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1301982

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
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 plans his Department has to review the age of consent for marriage; and what steps is he taking to help protect young people from coercion and forced marriage.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	167267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>Forced marriage, whatever the age, was made an offence in 2014. Since 2017, lifelong anonymity has been available to victims of forced marriage.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that the number of people marrying in England and Wales at 16 or 17 has been in decline over the years. In 2017, the latest year for which statistics are available, 183 of the people entering 235,910 opposite sex marriages did so at those ages.</p><p> </p><p>Primary legislation would be required to raise the marriageable age to 18 and thereby to remove the existing requirement for parental or judicial consent at 16 or 17. The Government continues to listen carefully to the debate on the legal age of marriage. My noble friend Lord Wolfson, in his new role as Minister for family justice, will arrange to meet with my Honourable friend, the member for Mid Derbyshire, to discuss her Private Members’ Bill on these important issues.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 167266 question first answered 16/03/2021 18:18:53 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

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

1130747

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people below 18 years of age who are married.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	261472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/06/2019 16:58:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ 261472.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

917184

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, in how many marriages was the (a) woman or (b) man between the 16 and 18 years of age for each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	149646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 07/06/2018 09:42:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ146869 PQ149650.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

917186

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of marriages involving a party under the age of 16 years worldwide for each year that information is available.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	149648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Based on information available from UNICEF, one in 20 girls are married under the age of 15 globally. In 2017, 12 per cent of girls in sub-Saharan Africa were married by age 15; 8 per cent in South Asia; 5 per cent in Latin America and Caribbean; 3 per cent in the Middle East and North Africa; and 1 per cent in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 12/06/2018 15:20:00 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

917188

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of marriages involving a party under 18 years old in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	149650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 149646 question first answered 07/06/2018 09:42:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

599564

registered interest
date	11/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking in co-operation with UN agencies to tackle the increase in child brides in refugee camps and conflict areas.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	48097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The UK is committed to the ‘Call to Action’ on women and girls and keeping girls and women safe in emergencies, including providing £23.5 million to UNFPA in Syria, to support women and girls vulnerable to child and forced marriage, domestic violence, and sexual violence, abuse, and exploitation through improved access to psycho-social support and sexual and reproductive health care.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 18/10/2016 16:12:08 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

514099

registered interest
date	19/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 April 2016 to Question 33257, what the Government's policy is on (a) granting residency to and (b) possible prosecution of people who arrive in the UK as either refugees or asylum seekers who are married to a child under 16 when such marriages were undertaken legally outside the UK and were not performed under duress.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	34734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>People of any age who are able to establish a protection need will normally be granted asylum or humanitarian protection in the UK irrespective of whether they are married to a child under 16 where the marriage was undertaken legally outside the UK and not under duress.</p><p>A person under 18 who seeks asylum as the spouse or civil partner of another asylum seeker will not be allowed to do so and must apply for asylum in their own right as a minor. Any minor seeking asylum or refugee granted leave on this basis who is known to be in a relationship akin to marriage will be referred to the local authority social services at the earliest opportunity, irrespective of the legality of the marriage or whether the marriage is believed to have taken place under duress.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 26/04/2016 11:43:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 57091 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

510126

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what legislative provisions there are to prevent the husband of a child bride bringing that bride into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	33256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>Under the family Immigration Rules both an applicant for a spouse visa and their sponsor must be aged 18 or over.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 14/04/2016 14:54:56 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell