Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) are protected and (b) have previously been protected but no longer are by a Forced Marriage Protection Order.

Statistics on Forced Marriage Protection Orders are published by the Ministry of Justice and are available as part of the Family Courts Statistics Quarterly series at

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly. Under this series, the document “Family court tables” provides statistics on the number of applications and orders made in each quarter since 2009 (currently at Table 13). The latest statistics were published on 31 March 2016, providing data up to the end of December 2015.

However, information on the number of people protected by an order is not held centrally.