HC Deb 20 February 1990 vol 167 cc726-7W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to enable applicants in person for copies of birth certificates and so on at St. Catherine's house to make only one visit both to record the intention and to collect the certificate.

Mr. Freeman

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Hunter) on 1 February at columns354–55 about the publications of a White Paper "Registration proposals for change" (Cm. 939). This includes proposals for changes to the present arrangements for issuing birth, death and marriage certificates at St. Catherine's house, including the introduction of a one-day search and collections service.

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