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Marriage: Humanism

Asked by Daisy CooperLiberal DemocratMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 29 July 2024UIN 832

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of legally recognising humanist marriages.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones

We are aware that weddings are an important issue for humanists and that the Law Commission has made recommendations for wholesale change of weddings law in July 2022. We will take the time as a new Government to properly consider this issue. We will set out our next steps on our manifesto commitment to strengthen rights and protections for women in cohabitating couples in the near future.

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