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Parental Responsibility: Offenders

Asked by Natalie FleetLabourMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 16 May 2025UIN 52007

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications have been made to the courts to strip people convicted of (a) rape and (b) other serious crime of their parental responsibility in each of the last five years.

Answered by Sarah Sackman

Data on the number of barring orders made in the family courts and on the number of applications made to strip people convicted of rape and other serious crime of their parental responsibility are not held.

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