Harassment: Court Orders

Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 23 March 2017.

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Photo of Jess Phillips Jess Phillips Labour, Birmingham, Yardley

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many restraining orders issued (a) prohibited online contact and (b) restricted the ability of the subject of the order to take civil court actions against the victim in the latest year for which figures are available.

Photo of Phillip Lee Phillip Lee The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

Information on the number of restraining orders issued by courts is reported to and centrally collated by the Ministry of Justice. However, the specific details of the prohibitions contained within these orders are not centrally collated due to their complexity. This information is held on individual court files and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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