PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Family Courts (27 February 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of child residency decisions made in family courts in each of the last five years that have been based on findings by the court that parental alienation has taken place.

Asked by:
Taiwo Owatemi (Labour)

Incidences of children who have been moved from one parental residence to another, as a result of parental alienation or alienating behaviours are not recorded centrally. Such information can only be obtained from individual case files at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Mike Freer (Conservative)
8 March 2023