United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 64314
Homicide: Parents
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1 July 2025
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8 July 2025 · Answer
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8 July 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to automatically limit a surviving parent's parental responsibility over their child in cases where one parent has unlawfully killed the other.
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1 July 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to automatically limit a surviving parent's parental responsibility over their child in cases where one parent has unlawfully killed the other.
Source: Commons
8 July 2025
Answer
Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 provides that where one parent kills the other, the Crown Court will be required to restrict the exercise of their parental responsibility for any children they shared at the point of sentence.The measure w...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-01/64314
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1818488
- uk · wq-1818488 · source updated 8 July 2025