Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, further to the Answer of 16 January 2018 to Questions 117291 and 117292, what the range of issues are that the Government would be required to consider carefully before deciding whether to amend the existing law on marriage to make provision for legally valid humanist ceremonies.

The range of issues that the Government would be required to consider can be found in the Government response to the consultation on marriages by non-religious belief organisations. This response was published in 2014 and is available at gov.uk.