Question follow-through · 109703
Civil Partnerships and Marriage
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what guidance her Department provides to opposite-sex civil partners wishing to marry but unable to convert their civil partnership without first declaring an irretrievable breakdown of their relationship.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what guidance her Department provides to opposite-sex civil partners wishing to marry but unable to convert their civil partnership without first declaring an irretrievable breakdown of their relationship.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon. member back to the answer to PQ 32163, answered on 3rd March 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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