Domestic Abuse
Commons · Question 11353 · Tabled 18 Jun 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Gregory Stafford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the use of statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery and insolvency proceedings as a means of economic abuse within the meaning of sect
Answer
Answered by Natalie Fleet, 25 Jun 2026
We recognise that statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery or insolvency proceedings may be used by perpetrators as a form of economic abuse, where they are used to control, coerce or cause financial harm to a victim. Economic abuse...