Question follow-through · 23995
Legal Systems: Islam
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to close all Sharia courts in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to close all Sharia courts in the UK.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 December to Question 18879: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-12-10/18879.Sharia Councils are not part of the judicial system.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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