§ Lord Northbourneasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they have made an estimate of the annual cost to the Exchequer of marriage breakdown in the United Kingdom. [HL1390]
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyIn 1999 the then Lord Chancellor commissioned Sir Graham Hart to carry out a review of the funding of the marriage and relationship support. His report,Funding of Marriage Support, is available of the DCA website (http:// www.dca.gov.uk). The Government have not commissioned specific research into the cost to the Exchequer of marital breakdown.