PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
British Nationals Abroad: Forced Marriage (9 January 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of victims of forced marriage who were required to pay the cost of repatriation to the UK without an emergency loan agreement in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Wes Streeting (Labour)

There are different routes for funding repatriation, and we do not collect or record statistics on how individuals fund their return to the UK. In the majority of cases the family cover the cost of the repatriation. Where possible, the Government will seek to ensure the costs fall on the perpetrators by means of Forced Marriage Protection Orders (FMPOs).

Answered by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)
14 January 2019