Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-02-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) applied for and (b) were granted divorce in each of the last five years.

Caroline Dinenage

Details of the number of applications for divorce and the number of decrees issued by the courts are published in Table 7 of the Family Court Statistics Quarterly and the December 2015 report is at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015

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