Question follow-through · 18879
Legal Systems: Islam
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of sharia councils operating in England and Wales.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of sharia councils operating in England and Wales.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
Sharia Councils are not part of the judicial system; therefore the Ministry of Justice does not hold data on the number of sharia councils in operation, and there is no plan to produce such data at this time.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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