Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 8 March (HL13499), how many cases were brought forward for (1) forcing someone to marry, and (2) breaching a forced marriage protection order, under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016, (d) 2017, (e) 2018, (f) 2019, and (g) 2020.
The number of offences forced marriage recorded by police forces in England Wales able to supply data to the Home Office can be found in the table. Data for the whole of 2020 is not yet available. This will include cases where an attempt to commit a forced marriage offence was thwarted as well as completed offences.
Table: Forced marriage offences, England and Wales*
Year | Number of offences |
2015 | 44 |
2016 | 99 |
2017 | 76 |
2018 | 128 |
2019 | 131 |
*Excludes police forces: Kent, Wiltshire, Staffordshire, Humberside and Greater Manchester Police
.