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Homicide: Parents |
| Question ID: |
1818488 |
| UIN: |
64314 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-01 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5134 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andy MacNae
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Andy MacNae
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to automatically limit a surviving parent's parental responsibility over their child in cases where one parent has unlawfully killed the other. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-08 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5204 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answer text: |
Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 provides that where one parent kills the other, the Crown Court will be required to restrict the exercise of their parental responsibility for any children they shared at the point of sentence.The measure w... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |