Naz Shah – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Naz Shah on 2016-05-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people made contact with the Forced Marriage Unit in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.

James Duddridge

The Forced Marriage Unit is a joint Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Home Office Unit which was set up in January 2005 to lead on the Government’s forced marriage policy, outreach and casework. Statistics on the number of enquiries and cases dealt with by the Forced Marriage Unit via its public helpline and email inbox in 2013, 2014 and 2015 are published online here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/forced-marriage#statistics-on-forced-marriage-collected-by-fmu