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Marriage Certificates: Mothers

Question for Home Office

UIN 221750, tabled on 22 January 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2015 to Question 219638, whether the potential timelines for legislative change to allow the mothers of brides and grooms to be named on marriage certificates include an option for the change to be made before the 2015 general election.

Answered on

27 January 2015

We are continuing to develop the options that will allow mothers’ names to be recorded on marriage certificates as soon as practicable.

Answered by

Home Office
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