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939973

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date	12/07/2018
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, when the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals in response to the Supreme Court's recent ruling on heterosexual civil partnerships.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	163584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>We have committed to undertake further work to inform a decision on civil partnerships and resolve the difference in treatment between same-sex and opposite-sex couples. We will bring forward legislative proposals on this issue in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/07/2018 13:32:18 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

932363

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for International Development (in substitution for the Home Secretary and the Education Secretary) (Respondent), whether they intend to bring forward legislation to change the law in respect of civil partnerships; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL9075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed to undertake further work to inform a decision on civil partnerships and will consider carefully the various options for this, including legislation. We set out our plans in ‘<em>The Future Operation of Civil Partnership: Gathering Further Information’ </em>command paper, published on 10 May.</p><p>We will keep those plans under review in light of the recent Supreme Court judgment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/07/2018 16:28:26 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

931906

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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, with reference to the Supreme Court judgment of 27 June 2018, what steps the Government is taking to review its policy on civil partnerships for opposite-sex couples.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	158342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text Government has already committed to undertake further work to inform a decision on civil partnerships. We set out our plans for doing this in ‘The Future Operation of Civil Partnership: Gathering Further Information’ command paper, published on 10 May<p /><p /><p />We will keep those plans under review in light of the recent Supreme Court judgment<p /><p /> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 02/07/2018 16:14:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

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

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