Question follow-through · 64314
Homicide: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to automatically limit a surviving parent's parental responsibility over their child in cases where one parent has unlawfully killed the other.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Homicide: Parents · 21 Jul 2025
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- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to automatically limit a surviving parent's parental responsibility over their child in cases where one parent has unlawfully killed the other.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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8 Jul 2025
Answer published
Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 provides that where one parent kills the other, the Crown Court will be required to restrict the exercise of their parental responsibility for any children they shared at the point of sentence.The measure w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Homicide: Parents
21 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 64314 on Homicide: Parents, on what date her Department plans for the commencement of Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024.