Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 69481

Homicide: Parents

Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025

Question

Andy MacNae

LabourRossendale and Darwen

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 64314 on Homicide: Parents, on what date her Department plans for the commencement of Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024.

Answer

Sarah Sackman
The Government is committed to implementing Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, which introduces an automatic restriction on the exercise of parental responsibility where one parent has been sentenced of the murder or voluntary manslaughter ...

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