| Heading: |
Polygamy: Research |
| Question ID: |
1810255 |
| UIN: |
58015 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-06 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4474 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kevin Hollinrake
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| Asking Member handle: |
kevinhollinrake
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@kevinhollinrake
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2025 to Question 50158 on Polygamy, if she will make it her policy to commission research on this issue. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4641 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Norris
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexJJNorris
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexJJNorris
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| Answer text: |
The department has no plans to commission research on this issue. It has been the policy of successive governments to prevent the formation of polygamous households in the UK. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |