Question follow-through · 85820
Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure registrars receive clear (a) guidance and (b) training on registering births to same-sex couples who conceive after marriage.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure registrars receive clear (a) guidance and (b) training on registering births to same-sex couples who conceive after marriage.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
The General Register Office for England and Wales provides handbooks and e-learning products to registrars. These cover the whole range of registration duties.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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