Islam: Women
Commons · Question 50300 · Tabled 6 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 14 May 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the prevalence of (a) forced marriage, (b) domestic abuse and (c) educational disadvantage affecting Muslim women; and what steps her Department is taking to help tac
Answer
Answered by Jess Phillips, 14 May 2025
The Crime Survey for England and Wales for the year ending March 2024 estimates that 5.2% of Muslim women experienced domestic abuse in the last year, compared to a prevalence rate of 6.6% for the adult female population as a whole. In 2023, the Home Offi...