Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 52007

Parental Responsibility: Offenders

Tabled: 13 May 2025
Answered: 16 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Natalie Fleet

LabourBolsover

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications have been made to the courts to strip people convicted of (a) rape and (b) other serious crime of their parental responsibility in each of the last five years.

Answer

Sarah Sackman
Data on the number of barring orders made in the family courts and on the number of applications made to strip people convicted of rape and other serious crime of their parental responsibility are not held.