Question follow-through · 11353

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the use of statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery and insolvency proceedings as a means of economic abuse within the meaning of sect

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Home Office
Tabled
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
22 Jun 2026
Answer
25 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 18 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the use of statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery and insolvency proceedings as a means of economic abuse within the meaning of sect

  2. 22 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 25 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    We recognise that statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery or insolvency proceedings may be used by perpetrators as a form of economic abuse, where they are used to control, coerce or cause financial harm to a victim. Economic abuse...

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