Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Marie Tidball and Victoria Atkins

Wednesday 5th March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Victoria Atkins]

Withdrawn.

[Dr Marie Tidball (Penistone and Stocksbridge) (Lab)]

Forty-eight children that we know of have been killed by known domestically abusive parents during court-permitted contact visits, including Paul and Jack Sykes, who were tragically murdered at the hands of their father in a house fire. Their mother, and my constituent, Claire Throssell has campaigned against the presumption of contact, which allows such abusers to have unsupervised contact with their children. Will the Prime Minister meet Claire and me to discuss the urgent need to remove the presumption of contact in law?