Question follow-through · 1351
Civil Partnerships
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what consideration her Department has given to permitting the conversion of opposite-sex civil partnerships to marriages.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 20 May 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what consideration her Department has given to permitting the conversion of opposite-sex civil partnerships to marriages.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2026
Answer published
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-sex and same-sex coup...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Civil Partnerships
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the answer of 20 May 2026 to question 1351, if she will set a timeline for updating the House on considerations of conversion rights between civil partnerships and marriages for opposite-sex couple