PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Civil Partnerships: Heterosexuality (20 June 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to use the powers in section 2(1) of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 to amend the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to enable two persons who are not of the same sex to form a civil partnership in England and Wales.
Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)
Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)
Answer
The Government intends to change the law by regulations to extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples, as required by the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019, by 31 December 2019.
Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
23 July 2019
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