Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) cost and (b) number of applications (i) made and (ii) granted for the enforcement of existing section 8 orders in the country courts; and if he will make a statement.

We do not hold data on the specific costs of enforcement cases. Data modelling undertaken by the Department in 2014 estimated the average cost for issuing all types of private law Children proceedings to be £270 and was published in https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/court-fees-proposals-for-reform/supporting_documents/courtfeesconsultation.pdf

Information on the number of children who are the subject of applications and orders for enforcement in private law Children Act proceedings is published in Tables 3 and 4 of Family Court Statistics Quarterly available from www.gov.uk