Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-03-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for breach of a forced marriage protection order in each year since such orders came into force.

Norman Baker

The information requested is not collected centrally by the Home Office.

Powers of arrest for breach of a forced marriage protection order are currently
issued by the civil courts. Arrests for civil offences are not covered by the
Home Office arrest collection.

Breach of a forced marriage protection order will become an offence when
section 120 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 comes
into force in summer 2014.