Forced Marriage: Prosecutions

(asked on 17th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions there have been for forced marriage in England in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 20th July 2017

The police do not publish/record the number of suspected cases of Forced Marriage which have been investigated.

However, data from the CPS annual violence against women and girls reports on police referrals and prosecutions is set out below:

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

Referrals

46

51

59

67

82

90

Prosecutions completed

41

42

41

45

46

53

In addition, between 2009 and March 2017 over 1,250 Forced Marriage Protection Orders were issued to protect those at risk and assist with repatriating victims.

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