Home Office written question – answered am ar 6 Mawrth 2024.
Anneliese Dodds
Party Chair, Labour Party, Chair of Labour Policy Review, Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour as set out in section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 to include abuse in (a) cults and (b) sects.
Laura Farris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice and Home Office)
Controlling or Coercive Behaviour within an intimate or family relationship was made a criminal offence under the Serious Crime Act 2015. The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 removed the requirement for the parties to be ‘living together’ for the offence to occur. The Government has no plans to extend these provisions beyond intimate and family relationships.
The government will continue to work with the police and criminal justice agencies to ensure the law is used to maximum effect and that the new guidance is effective in identifying, investigating and evidencing CCB.
Yes2 people think so
No2 people think not
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