To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to allow mothers' names to be recorded on marriage certificates; if she will bring forward proposals to permit mothers' names to be retrospectively added to existing marriage certificates; and if she will make a statement.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
26 June 2014
We are currently considering how the information contained in the marriage
entry can be updated to include this, and to reflect changes since the coming
into force of the Regulation of Marriages Regulations 1986, as well as the
most suitable opportunity for doing so.
Answered by
Home Office
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