Forced marriage consultation
This consultation sought views on criminalising breaches of forced marriage protection orders and whether to criminalise forced marriage.
Detail
The government has published a summary of responses to the forced marriage consultation that sought views on how we might implement the criminalisation of a breach of a forced marriage protection order and whether to criminalise forced marriage.
There were strong arguments both for and against the creation of a new offence, however after listening very carefully to all views we have decided to make forcing someone to marry a criminal offence.
Documents
Forced marriage consultation - Welsh application/pdfForced marriage consultation - Welsh (PDF file - 275kb)application/pdfForced marriage consultation application/pdfForced marriage consultation (PDF file - 177kb)application/pdfForced Marriage consultation responses application/pdfForced Marriage consultation responses (PDF file - 159kb)application/pdfCriminalisation of Forced Marriage - Impact Assessment application/pdfCriminalisation of Forced Marriage - Impact Assessment (PDF file - 323kb)application/pdfImpact assessment: forced marriage criminalisation consultation application/pdfImpact assessment: forced marriage criminalisation consultation (PDF file - 117kb)application/pdfImpact assessment: criminalising breaches of Forced Marriage Protection Orders application/pdfImpact assessment: criminalising breaches of Forced Marriage Protection Orders (PDF file - 75kb)application/pdfForced Marriage – A Consultation Summary Of Responsesapplication/pdf