Question follow-through · 69481
Homicide: Parents
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.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
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.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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1 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to implementing Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, which introduces an automatic restriction on the exercise of parental responsibility where one parent has been sentenced of the murder or voluntary manslaughter ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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