| Heading: |
Foster Care: Prosecutions |
| Question ID: |
1804554 |
| UIN: |
53814 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1506 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Asking Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions were brought against the biological parents of children in foster care for incidents involving (a) inappropriate, (b) threatening and (c) abusive contact with their child’s foster parents since May 2024. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5333 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lucy Rigby
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lucy Rigby
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| Answer text: |
Threatening or abusive behaviour can amount to an offence under the Public Order Act 1986. To establish whether defendants charged with Public Order Act offences committed these offences against the foster carers of their children would require a manual r... |
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| Answering body ID: |
88 |
| Answering body name: |
Attorney General |
| Tweeted: |
true |