| Heading: |
Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships |
| Question ID: |
1791570 |
| UIN: |
43518 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4521 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Liz Saville Roberts
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| Asking Member handle: |
lsrplaid
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@lsrplaid
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the names of deceased fathers can be included on birth certificates in instances where the parents were unmarried prior to his death. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-07 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4849 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Davies-Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexDaviesJones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexDaviesJones
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| Answer text: |
Under Section 55A of the Family Law Act 1986, in situations where a child is born to unmarried parents, and the father dies prior to the birth, a Declaration of Parentage must be issued by the court in order for the paternity to be established. Once a dec... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |