PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Civil Partnerships Dissolution and Divorce (4 January 2019)

The Office for National Statistics has published data on the rates of divorce and civil partnership dissolution, available at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/vitalstatisticspopulationandhealthreferencetables. The most recent data is for 2017. These rates are not directly comparable, given that no civil partnerships can date back before the first formations in 2005. The first dissolutions took place in 2007.

The Government believes that committed family relationships are important to society. That is why the Prime Minister has announced that the Government will extend civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.