PARENTING TIME PRESUMPTION

Early day motion 299, tabled 16 December 2003 by Dominic Grieve (Conservative). Signed by 192 members.

That this House believes that separated parents should each have a legal presumption of contact with their children, so that both parents can continue to parent their children and that any children are able to benefit from being parented by both their parents, as well as from contact with any grandparents and extended family members able and willing to play a role in their upbringing; and urges the Government to replace the legal term 'contact' with 'parenting time' and to ensure that parenting time orders can be and are made and enforced by the courts, save where a child's safety would be at risk.

Signatures by party: Conservative 88, Labour 75, Liberal Democrat 14, Labour/Co-operative 7, DUP 3, Scottish National Party 2, Independent 1, Independent Conservative 1, UUP 1.