PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Civil Partnerships: Video Conferencing (2 July 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to issue revised guidance on the resumption of in-person eligibility meetings for civil partnerships; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of facilitating those meetings through the use of video-conferencing.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

The local registration service has been advised attesting civil partnership notices can recommence where these can be safely delivered in line with public health and local authority guidelines.

In accordance with legislation, meetings to complete the legal preliminaries of giving notice for a civil partnership must be conducted in the presence of the relevant authorised person.

Answered by:
Kevin Foster (Conservative)
13 July 2020