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905524

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships: Heterosexuality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much funding her Department has allocated for legal proceedings in relation to the case brought in the Supreme Court on 14 May 2018 by Keidon & Steinfold on civil partnerships.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	144774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>Since the start of the proceedings in 2014, the Government has spent £64,923 in legal costs as a result of this judicial review. The case is still ongoing, and so we are likely to incur further costs.</p><p>The Department has a central budget for legal costs, but does not allocate budgets to individual cases as the costs for each case varies.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/05/2018 14:11:26 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

905527

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the command paper, Future operation of Civil Partnerships, Cm. 9606, published in May 2018, what additional information is being sought by her Department in its latest consultation on extending civil partnerships.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	144775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The command paper, “The Future Operation of Civil Partnership: Gathering Further Information” (Cm. 9606), details four pieces of research that the Government are undertaking to assess the demand for civil partnership and help inform a decision about their future. These are to:</p><p> </p><p>(1) Assess trends in civil partnership and marriage formations amongst same-sex couples</p><p> </p><p>(2) Undertake surveys to assess demand for civil partnership and marriage amongst unmarried people in opposite-sex relationships in the UK</p><p> </p><p>(3) Undertake research into the motivations of same-sex couples who continue to choose civil partnership</p><p> </p><p>(4) Review the experience of other countries to understand the choices people actually make when faced with a choice between marriage and other forms of relationship.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The command paper also commits to a full public consultation following the completion of this research.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p />These activities will help us to put forward a specific recommendation about how civil partnership should change in the future. This differs from previous consultations, which asked people about a range of options including maintaining the status quo<p /><p /> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/05/2018 16:04:30 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

905537

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the command paper, Future operation of Civil Partnerships, Cm. 9606, published in May 2018, for what reasons the public consultation will not start before 2020; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	144776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to resolving the difference in treatment between same-sex and opposite-sex couples with respect to their ability to form a civil partnership. We want to do this as quickly as possible.</p><p>The command paper, “The Future Operation of Civil Partnership: Gathering Further Information” (Cm. 9606), details four pieces of research that the Government are undertaking to assess the demand for civil partnership and help inform a decision about their future. We will use this research to understand the total impact of a change in the law, including the cost of either extending or closing civil partnership. Our intention is to complete this research prior to a full public consultation taking place, and to use it to inform the proposed way forward. We anticipate all research will be complete by September 2019, at which point we would prepare the consultation taking account of the evidence gathered.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/05/2018 16:06:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

905539

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships: Heterosexuality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent representations she has received on extending civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	144777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>Rt. Hon. Penny Mordaunt MP became the Minister for Women and Equalities on 30 April 2018. The Minister discussed the issue of civil partnership with Stonewall at a recent meeting; she has not yet had any other meetings.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/05/2018 16:44:59 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

911194

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the command paper, Future operation of Civil Partnerships, Cm. 9606, published in May 2018, what specifications her Department issued on the opinion polling to be conducted when appointing an organisation to undertake opinion polling on demand for extending civil partnerships; and for what reasons the Office for National Statistics was so appointed.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	147775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>This survey is intended to help us understand how many unmarried people in an opposite-sex relationship may enter into a civil partnership if the option was open to them.</p><p>Creating a new survey mechanism to ask a small number of questions would have been disproportionately time-consuming and would not have been efficient, so it was decided to use an existing polling structure.</p><p>The ONS Opinions and Lifestyle survey offered the only regular omnibus survey of the general population using a random sample, rather than drawing on pre-screened panels.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/06/2018 16:45:03 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

985686

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Gender Recognition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she will take to assess the safeguarding implications of reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	178211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>We are carefully considering safeguarding issues related to reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004. We have been very clear that we are not going to be changing the existing safeguards in the Equality Act. Safeguarding is always a priority and, in line with the usual obligations on Government, any proposed new gender recognition system will be rigorously assessed in terms of its potential effect on other groups in society, as well as its implications for safeguarding processes in specific contexts, such as prisons. As part of the Gender Recognition Act consultation, we are keen to hear from respondents on these points.</p><p>Any new system that is proposed in the Government’s response to the Gender Recognition Act consultation will be subject to a full impact assessment.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 17/10/2018 15:04:33 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

166539

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to permit civil partnerships by opposite sex couples.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	216335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The report on the conclusions of the Civil Partnership Review (England and Wales) was published on 26 June 2014. Copies have been placed in the House Libraries.</p><p>A majority of respondents who expressed a view on them were opposed to each of the three main changes to civil partnership. There was therefore no united call for change from respondents to the consultation at this stage.</p><p>Of the over 10,000 online survey answers to each of the relevant questions:</p><p>• Less than a third of respondents supported abolition of civil partnership</p><p>• The majority were against closing civil partnership to new couples</p><p>• Over three-quarters were against opening up civil partnership to opposite sex couples.</p><p>Several important organisations thought it was too soon to consider making changes to civil partnership – this should wait until we know the impact of extending marriage to same sex couples. Other organisations, in contrast, put forward a case for opening up civil partnerships to opposite sex couples now, for example because civil partnership and marriage were different relationships and couples should have equal access to both.</p><p>Given the lack of consensus on the way forward, the Government will not be making any changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 216336 question first answered 02/12/2014 17:02:20 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

166606

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she has taken following the consultation on extending civil partnerships to opposite sex couples; and what the findings of the consultation were.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	216336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The report on the conclusions of the Civil Partnership Review (England and Wales) was published on 26 June 2014. Copies have been placed in the House Libraries.</p><p>A majority of respondents who expressed a view on them were opposed to each of the three main changes to civil partnership. There was therefore no united call for change from respondents to the consultation at this stage.</p><p>Of the over 10,000 online survey answers to each of the relevant questions:</p><p>• Less than a third of respondents supported abolition of civil partnership</p><p>• The majority were against closing civil partnership to new couples</p><p>• Over three-quarters were against opening up civil partnership to opposite sex couples.</p><p>Several important organisations thought it was too soon to consider making changes to civil partnership – this should wait until we know the impact of extending marriage to same sex couples. Other organisations, in contrast, put forward a case for opening up civil partnerships to opposite sex couples now, for example because civil partnership and marriage were different relationships and couples should have equal access to both.</p><p>Given the lack of consensus on the way forward, the Government will not be making any changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 216335 question first answered 02/12/2014 17:02:20 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

388172

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships Act 2004
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has any plans to bring forward an amendment to the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 to permit opposite sex civil partnerships.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	5833
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to extend the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to opposite sex couples.</p><p> </p><p>The Government carried out a review of the operation and future of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 required by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which included a full public consultation inviting views on potential changes to civil partnership.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published a report, following the review, which concluded that the Government would not make any changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/07/2015 06:06:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

388993

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of civil partnerships being available to only same-sex couples with the Human Rights Act 1998.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	6478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The availability of civil partnership only to same sex couples is compatible with the Convention rights and we note that the application to the European Court of Human Rights challenging the availability of civil partnership only to same sex couples was declared inadmissible on 12 December 2013.</p><p>The Government carried out a review of the operation and future of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 required by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which included a full public consultation inviting views on potential changes to civil partnership.</p><p>The Government published a report, following the review, which concluded that the Government would not make any changes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/07/2015 16:39:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton