Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspected cases of forced marriage have been investigated by the police in England in each year since 2010.
The police do not publish/record the number of suspected cases of Forced Marriage which have been investigated.
However, data from the CPS annual violence against women and girls reports on police referrals and prosecutions is set out below:
| 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Referrals | 46 | 51 | 59 | 67 | 82 | 90 |
Prosecutions completed | 41 | 42 | 41 | 45 | 46 | 53 |
In addition, between 2009 and March 2017 over 1,250 Forced Marriage Protection Orders were issued to protect those at risk and assist with repatriating victims.