HC Deb 20 March 2000 vol 346 cc462-3W
Ms Moran

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the(a) parliamentary constituency of residence, (b) age, (c) date, (d) location and (e) manner of death of each child who was killed (i) during child contact visits with parents with a history of domestic violence and (ii) in cases of disputed contact in instances of domestic violence by parents since January 1995; [113950]

(2) how many children have been killed in England and Wales since 1 January 1995 during child contact visits with parents who had a history of domestic violence. [113949]

Mr. Boateng

Just over 50 children a year in England and Wales are killed by their parents, but those killed during contact visits and in cases of disputed contact cannot be separately identified in the statistics collected centrally.