Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) applied for and (b) were granted divorce in each of the last five years.

Details of the number of applications for divorce and the number of decrees issued by the courts are published in Table 7 of the Family Court Statistics Quarterly and the December 2015 report is at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015