Question follow-through · 64775
Marriage: Ceremonies
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to lay a Legislative Reform Order to permit outdoor religious weddings.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to lay a Legislative Reform Order to permit outdoor religious weddings.
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Law Commission’s 2022 report on weddings raises a number of issues around weddings law, including giving greater choice in how and where individuals can get married.Given marriage will always be one of our most important institutions, it is right that...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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