Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 9 March 2016.
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.
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.
Statistics on Forced Marriage Protection Orders are publicly available as part of the Family Courts Statistics Quarterly series at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly. 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.
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.
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