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Family Proceedings

Commons · Question 3099 · 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, if his Department will require courts, in private family law proceedings involving allegations of domestic abuse or child protection concerns, to collect and make available anonymised and aggregated data disaggre

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...