Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department takes to support people with no birth record to receive a certification of their birth.

Civil registration in the UK is a devolved matter and there are separate systems in place for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

For births occurring in England and Wales, a birth certificate can be issued once the birth has been registered. Although the law requires births to be registered within 42 days, they can still be registered after this time where sufficient evidence of the date and place of birth is provided.