Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 64314
Homicide: Parents
Tabled: 1 July 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025
Question
Andy MacNae
Labour — Rossendale and Darwen
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.
Answer
Sarah SackmanSection 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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