Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which acts of Parliament need to be amended in order to allow mothers' names and details to be given on marriage certificates.

Any change to the content of the marriage entry to include mothers’ names would ideally also bring forward reform to how marriages are registered to introduce efficiencies and create a more secure system for the maintenance of marriage records.

To introduce such reform would require changes to primary legislation, in particular the Marriage Act 1949, and associated regulations. We continue to look for opportunities to introduce the legislative change required.