Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 72715
Sexual Offences: Contact Orders and Parental Responsibility
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025
Question
Mr Alex Barros-Curtis
Labour — Cardiff West
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to prevent people who have committed sexual offences from obtaining parental responsibility or contact orders for children conceived as a result of their crimes; and whether she plans to
Answer
Sarah SackmanThe Government has included a measure in the Victim and Courts Bill which will restrict the exercise of an offender’s parental responsibility where they are sentenced to four or more years imprisonment for a serious child sexual abuse offence against a ch...
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