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Question for Ministry of Justice

UIN 198188, tabled on 6 September 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to implement the recommendations in the Law Commission report entitled Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law, published in July 2022.

Answered on

14 September 2023

Marriage will always be one of our most important institutions, and the Government has a duty to consider the implications of any changes to the law in this area very carefully.

The Government is considering the Law Commissions’ 57 recommendations for legislative reform and a response will be published in due course.