Affiliation Orders

HC Deb 01 July 1954 vol 529 c1507

31. Mrs. Jeger

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of affiliation orders issued during the last three years for which figures are available.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

The number of affiliation orders made at magistrates' courts in England and Wales in the years 1951, 1952 and 1953 was as follows:—1951–3,944; 1952–4,072; 1953–3,979.