Family Courts: Domestic Abuse

(asked on 11th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 15 September 2016, Official Report, column 1118, whether she has discussed the recommendations in the Women's Aid Nineteen Child Homicides report, published in January 2016, with that organisation; and if she will implement that report's recommendations on making the family courts process safer for women and children who are survivors of domestic abuse.


Answered by
Phillip Lee Portrait
Phillip Lee
This question was answered on 16th November 2016

Details of ministerial meetings are published on gov.uk.

As was made clear during the debate in Parliament on 15 September, the Government is determined to improve the family justice response to domestic abuse and is carefully considering the recommendations made in the Women’s Aid report.

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