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1521180

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
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 (a) create an offence for Predatory Marriages, (b) ensure that no one who is showing insufficient mental capacity marries against their will or unknowingly, and (c) amend the relevant marriages laws so that it does not automatically revoke an existing Will when the marriage is registered.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	62075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>Under the current law, causing a person who lacks capacity to consent to a marriage is a criminal offence of forced marriage under the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014, for which the maximum penalty is seven years imprisonment.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to wills, the principle in English and Welsh law that marriage has the effect of revoking wills is long established. The issue of whether marriage or civil partnership should invoke automatic revocation of the wills of those involved is being considered as part of a review by the Law Commission on reforming the law of wills.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will review the case for reforming the current law when it has received the recommendations in the Law Commission’s final report.</p> answering member constituency Dartford answering member printed Gareth Johnson question first answered 20/10/2022 10:40:44 answering member 3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1461275

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to extend the legislation on forced marriage to include the offence of predatory marriage.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of protecting the vulnerable, including the elderly, from being taken advantage of extremely seriously.</p><p> </p><p>We will review the case for reforming the law in relation to predatory marriage in the light of two forthcoming reports from the Law Commission. One review is in relation to the law around marriage, due to report in July 2022, and the other on the law of wills, the report date of which is yet to be confirmed. Both reviews are exploring the potential to provide improved protection for vulnerable people, and we will respond to the recommendations of the reports once they have been received.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 17/05/2022 16:07:30 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1387601

registered interest
date	14/12/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
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 (a) tackle and (b) bring forward tougher legislation on predatory marriage.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	92940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of protecting the vulnerable, including the elderly, from being taken advantage of extremely seriously.</p><p> </p><p>The Law Commission is working on two major law reform reviews commissioned by the Government which are relevant to our developing reform proposals in relation to predatory marriage. One is in relation to the law of weddings the other on the law of wills.</p><p> </p><p>Both projects have been exploring potential proposals to provide improved protection for vulnerable people, and we will review the case for reform when we have received the reports and recommendations from the Law Commission.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 22/12/2021 15:44:09 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1222177

registered interest
date	08/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to bring forward measures to safeguard against predatory marriages, particularly those involving older people.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL6614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>A registration official has a duty to stop proceedings if they are of opinion that either of the parties to a marriage does not have the capacity to marry. The Government has no current legislative plans to change the existing safeguards.</p><p>The Law Commission is currently reviewing how and where weddings take place, including the formalities and safeguarding checks required before a marriage is conducted. The Government looks forward to publication of the Law Commission’s consultation paper in September.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 14/07/2020 11:40:21 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1195347

registered interest
date	12/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to legislate to tackle predatory marriage.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL4350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government has no current legislative plans to change the existing safeguards.</p><p>A registration official has a duty to stop proceedings if they are of opinion that either of the parties to a marriage does not have the capacity to marry.</p><p>The Law Commission is currently reviewing how and where weddings take place, including the formalities and safeguarding checks required before a marriage is conducted. We will carefully consider any recommendations made in the final report.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 27/05/2020 15:19:29 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1014634

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for enacting legislation to provide financial relief under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 to victims of forced marriages whose religious marriages are not binding under UK law as outlined in section 121(4) of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
tabling member printed	Baroness Berridge
uin	HL11773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is clear that forced marriage is a terrible form of abuse and that we will not allow political or cultural sensitivities to get in the way of tackling it.</p><p> </p><p>However, the purpose of Part II of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 is to set out how the Court orders financial provision on the legal ending of marriage.</p><p> </p><p>Since forced marriage was made a criminal offence in England and Wales in 2014, the Government has continued to introduce measures to protect victims, including lifelong anonymity in 2017. Last month, the Home Secretary launched a consultation to seek views on whether it is necessary to introduce a new legal mandatory reporting duty relating to cases of forced marriage. That consultation also seeks views on how the current guidance on forced marriage could be improved and strengthened.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to keeping this area of family justice under review.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/12/2018 15:49:07 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge

816863

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) charged and (b) convicted with (i) forcing someone to marry and (ii) the breach of a forced marriage protection order since the coming into force of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	121290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts for offences related to forced marriage, in England and Wales from 2014 to 2016, can be viewed in the table attached at Annex A.</p><p> </p><p>Court proceedings data for 2017 is planned for publication in May 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Charging data is not held by the Ministry of Justice.</p><p> </p><p>Annex A:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Defendants proceeded against at magistrates' courts and found guilty at all courts for offences related to forced marriage, England and Wales, 2014 to 2016 <sup>(1)(2)(3)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offence</p></td><td><p>Outcome</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Forced marriage</p></td><td><p>Proceeded against</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found guilty</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Breach of forced marriage protection order</p></td><td><p>Proceeded against</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found guilty</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>'-' = Nil</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>(1) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. Consequently, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>(3) Offences under S120 (breach of protection orders) and 121 (forced marriage) Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ref: PQ 121290</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/01/2018 17:11:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

456502

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of applications for forced marriage protection orders have led to the issuing of an Order in each quarter since the Force Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 came into force.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	29184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>Statistics on Forced Marriage Protection Orders are publicly available as part of the Family Courts Statistics Quarterly series at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>. Under this series, the document “Family court tables” provides statistics on the number of applications and orders made in each quarter since 2009. The next publication of Family Court Statistics Quarterly is due on 31 March 2016. This will provide data up to the end of December 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Specific data on the proportion of applications which have led to the issue of a Forced Marriage Protection order are set out in Table 1. The available data on “emergency protection orders” relates to ex parte applications for Forced Marriage Protection Orders and is set out in Tables 2a and 2b.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 29181 question first answered 09/03/2016 13:30:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

456503

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many forced marriage protection orders (a) applied for and (b) issued have been emergency orders in each quarter since the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 came into force; and what proportion of such orders applied for have been issued in each of those quarters.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	29181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>Statistics on Forced Marriage Protection Orders are publicly available as part of the Family Courts Statistics Quarterly series at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>. Under this series, the document “Family court tables” provides statistics on the number of applications and orders made in each quarter since 2009. The next publication of Family Court Statistics Quarterly is due on 31 March 2016. This will provide data up to the end of December 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Specific data on the proportion of applications which have led to the issue of a Forced Marriage Protection order are set out in Table 1. The available data on “emergency protection orders” relates to ex parte applications for Forced Marriage Protection Orders and is set out in Tables 2a and 2b.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 29184 question first answered 09/03/2016 13:30:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq