Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
(asked on 3rd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will amend legislation on births, deaths and marriages to remove the requirement to register DNA of a deceased father on a birth certificate where paternity is not contested.
This question was answered on 13th November 2017
The existing legislation contains a number of protections to ensure legal records for births are maintained accurately and, in the case of deceased unmarried fathers, these include a requirement to obtain a court declaration of parentage. There are no current plans to amend the legislation.