England & Wales - contact applications
Within divorce
| Year | Applications | % refused | No orders | Orders made |
| made | withdrawn | refused |
| 1991 | 1289 | 5 | 11 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1993 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1994 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 8 |
| 1995 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 13 | 15 |
| 1996 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 18 |
| 1997 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 12 |
| 1998 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 7 |
Other
| Year | Applications | % refused | No orders | Orders made |
| made | withdrawn | refused |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 6 |
| 1997 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1998 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 10 |
Note:- % refused = 100 * Applications refused / (Applications made - Applications withdrawn)
- Red highlight = more than twice the national average of refusals + 5 or more actual refusals
- '...' = no data
Prepared from data provided by the Lord Chancellor's DepartmentShared Parenting Information Group (SPIG) UK
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Last updated - 14 January 1999
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