Marriage: Northern Ireland

(asked on 28th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what her policy is on the recognition in Northern Ireland of same sex marriages performed in the UK.


Answered by
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Shailesh Vara
This question was answered on 5th March 2018

Marriage remains a devolved matter in Northern Ireland. The UK Government will continue to do all it can to support delivery of an effective, stable, power-sharing devolved Government, so that decisions on issues such as same sex marriage are taken by locally accountable politicians.

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