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Child Arrangements Orders: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many private law cases where child sexual abuse was alleged to have been perpetrated by a parent was that parent granted residence in (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
2 Apr 2025
Answer
3 Apr 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many private law cases where child sexual abuse was alleged to have been perpetrated by a parent was that parent granted residence in (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The requested information is not recorded centrally. The relevant data could only be obtained by an analysis of individual case files at disproportionate cost.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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