Forced Marriage: Prosecutions
Commons · Question 110930 · Tabled 4 Feb 2026 · Attorney General · Official record
Answered 12 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Solicitor General,?what information his Department holds on the number of people that have been prosecuted for facilitating forced marriages in each year since 2010 and broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Answered by Ellie Reeves, 12 Feb 2026
Offences relating to forced marriages are created by s121 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, which came into force in June 2014. Section 121 was further amended in February 2023 when s121(3A) was inserted making it an offence to fo...