Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of child contact cases which involved allegations of domestic abuse in each year since 2010.
The Ministry of Justice does not hold the requested data. A revised version of Practice Direction 12J, which sets out a framework for judges to use in child arrangements cases where there is a context of domestic abuse, was introduced in October 2017. This makes clear that judges must take appropriate steps to explore any allegations of domestic abuse and give full regard to the impact of any abuse when making a child arrangement order.