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Question follow-through · 87077

Children: Custody

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the handling of child custody cases through non-court processes.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
31 Oct 2025
Target answer date
4 Nov 2025
Answer
10 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the handling of child custody cases through non-court processes.

  2. 4 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Justice continues to develop its understanding of how non-court processes support families to resolve post-separation issues, such as child arrangements.Evidence from the Family Mediation Voucher Scheme suggests that these approaches can h...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Prisoners

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Prisoners' Release

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Child Arrangements Orders

12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2025 to Question 87080 on Child Arrangement Orders, if he will make such an assessment.

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Family Conciliation Services: Voucher Schemes

12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2025 to Question 87077 on Children: Custody, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of expanding the Family Mediation Voucher Scheme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Family Conciliation Services: Norfolk

12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2025 to Question 87077 on Children: Custody, what estimate he has made of the number of families reached by the Family Mediation Voucher Scheme in a) Norfolk and b) North Wes

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Family Conciliation Services: Voucher Schemes

12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2025 to Question 87077 on Children: Custody, what plans his Department has to fund the Family Mediation Voucher Scheme beyond March 2026.

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CAFCASS: Accountability

12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has recently considered measures to improve the accountability of CAFCASS.

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Child Arrangements Orders

12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has considered changes to child arrangement orders that would affect child maintenance requirements for parents without custody.

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Child Arrangements Orders

12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has recently assessed the potential merits of reviewing the weighting given to a child's views in child arrangement orders in cases where there is an unresolved disagreement between parents

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders: Deportation

24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases under the Early Removal Scheme where the removal may undermine confidence in the scheme or criminal justice system were referred to the Chief Executive of HMPPS for decision in each of the last fiv

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Offenders: Deportation

24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance is provided to Prison Governors considering authorising the removal of foreign national offenders to assess the potential impact on public confidence in the Early Removal Scheme or the criminal just

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Offenders: Deportation

24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance is provided to the Chief Executive of HMPPS regarding assessing the potential impact on public confidence in the Early Removal Scheme or the criminal justice system of a decision to authorise remova