Question follow-through · 17768

Violent and Sex Offender Register: Personal Names

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on the circumstances in which registered sex offenders can apply to change their name.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 9 Dec 2024
Answer: 10 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on the circumstances in which registered sex offenders can apply to change their name.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
Registered sex offenders are required to notify their personal details to the police as an automatic consequence to a conviction or caution for a Schedule 3 offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. They must provide a record of (among other things) the...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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