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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...