Family Proceedings
Commons · Question 3098 · Tabled 19 May 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 28 May 2026
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the absence of routinely collected, disaggregated data on ethnicity, religion, and immigration or settlement status in private family law cases i
Answer
Answered by Catherine Atkinson, 28 May 2026
The Government recognises that the Family Courts must support all court users and that accurate demographic data is essential to that. That is why protected characteristics data, including data on ethnic group and religion, is routinely captured by the ne...