PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Marriage Certificates (4 June 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timeframe is for the implementation of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 and the provision in that Act that allows for the names of both parents of a couple to be included on marriage certificates.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

The Home Office is currently working on implementation plans to introduce the provisions in the Act. This will facilitate an update of the marriage entry to include the names of both parents of a couple.

The Act also provides for civil partnership to be extended to opposite-sex couples which must be implemented no later than 31 December 2019.
An implementation date for each of these provisions will be announced in due course.

Answered by:
Caroline Nokes (Conservative)
13 June 2019