| Heading: |
Civil Partnerships and Marriage |
| Question ID: |
1796318 |
| UIN: |
47531 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5288 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Al Pinkerton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Dr Al Pinkerton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of enabling opposite-sex couples to convert a civil partnership to marriage. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1541 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Nia Griffith
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| Answering Member handle: |
NiaGriffithMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@NiaGriffithMP
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| Answer text: |
In 2019, when civil partnerships were made available for opposite-sex couples in England and Wales, the Government ran a public consultation on the future of conversion rights between marriage and civil partnerships for both opposite and same-sex couples ... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
31 |
| Answering body name: |
Women and Equalities |
| Tweeted: |
true |