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Lords Chamber
Domestic Violence Refuges: Charities and Local Government - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of the Commission on Forced Marriage. - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

May. 05 2023

Source Page: Forced marriage resource pack
Document: Forced marriage resource pack (webpage)

Found: Forced marriage resource pack

Deposited Papers
Home Office

Mar. 08 2012

Source Page: Call to End Violence against Women and Girls. Taking Action – the next chapter. 48 p.
Document: DEP2012-0439.pdf (PDF)

Found: breaches of the civil Forced Marriage Protection Orders.

Deposited Papers
Home Office

Nov. 25 2010

Source Page: Call to End Violence against Women and Girls. 29 p.
Document: DEP2010-2086.pdf (PDF)

Found: We know that practices such as forced marriage 11 where the majority of those affected are women and

Bill Documents
16 Jan 2024 - Written evidence
Written evidence submitted by Ania Symonowicz (LFRB32)
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024

Found: The removal of marriage value.

Select Committee
International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute
 MENA0047 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Article 9 of Iraq’s Personal Status Law No. 188 of 1959 criminalises forced marriage.

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Minister for Victims and Community Safety to the Convener, 7 December 2023
 Consultation on the minimum age of marriage and civil partnership

Correspondence Dec. 07 2023

Committee: Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

Found: Consultation on the minimum age of marriage and civil partnership Letter from the Minister for Victims

Written Question
Female Genital Mutilation: Prosecutions
Tuesday 27th February 2024

Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many female genital mutilation offences were recorded between April 2022 and March 2023; and of those, how many prosecutions have occurred.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Since April 2019, the Home Office has required police forces to provide quarterly data returns on the number of offences they have recorded as being related to ‘honour’-based abuse, which includes FGM. In October 2023, the Home Office published the fourth set of these annual statistics, which included 84 offences relating to FGM covering the year to March 2023. Data on prosecutions is the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.

Between April 2022 and March 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) recorded one offence which was charged by the police under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. This was discontinued at its first hearing due to an incorrect charge submitted by the police. Separately, in October 2023, a defendant was found guilty of aiding the female genital mutilation of a non-UK person contrary to section 3 of the Act. This defendant was originally charged in 2018.

In April 2023, the Home Office commissioned the University of Birmingham to conduct a feasibility study to determine whether it is possible to produce a robust prevalence estimate of FGM and forced marriage. This work is ongoing and decisions about next steps will be taken in due course.

Select Committee
Staffordshire University, and University of Wolverhampton
 CCS0026 - Climate change and security

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Inquiry: Climate change and security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: Restricted Written evidence submitted by Dr Khaoula Omhand and Professor Sibel Yamak Climate Change, Forced

Deposited Papers
Home Office

Dec. 14 2011

Source Page: Cross-government definition of domestic violence: a consultation. Consultation paper. 28 p.
Document: DEP2011-2071.pdf (PDF)

Found: marriage & so-called ‚honour-crimes™.