United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 200830
Forced Marriage: Children
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13 October 2023
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23 October 2023 · Answer
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23 October 2023
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) convictions, (b) prosecutions, (c) arrests and (d) live, ongoing criminal investigations there were for the new crime of arranging for a child to marry between the introduction of the Mar
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13 October 2023
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) convictions, (b) prosecutions, (c) arrests and (d) live, ongoing criminal investigations there were for the new crime of arranging for a child to marry between the introduction of the Mar
Source: Commons
23 October 2023
Answer
The Government is committed to tackling forced marriage. On 27 February 2023, we brought into force legislation which raised the minimum age of marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales to 18, and expanded the offence of forced marriage so it is...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-10-13/200830
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1662976
- uk · wq-1662976 · source updated 23 October 2023