Question follow-through · 47123
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of providing redress to people impacted by forced adoptions between 1945 and 1976.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 May 2025 · 38 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of providing redress to people impacted by forced adoptions between 1945 and 1976.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 May 2025
Answer published
This abhorrent practice should never have taken place, and our deepest sympathies are with all those affected.We take this issue extremely seriously and are considering what more can be done for those who were impacted by historical forced adoption.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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