Forced Marriage Unit

(asked on 30th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what protocols are in place for the Forced Marriage Unit to provide information to local constabularies about people referred to them.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 6th December 2016

The UK is a world-leader in the fight to stamp out the brutal practice of forced marriage, with our joint Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) which leads efforts to combat it both at home and abroad. We made forced marriage a criminal offence in 2014 to better protect victims and send a clear message that this abhorrent practice is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated in the UK.

The FMU acts in an advisory capacity and, where there is an imminent risk of serious harm or threat to life to the victim, will refer cases to the police and other statutory agencies as appropriate.

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