Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what comparison he has made of the divorce rates of married heterosexual and married same-sex couples.

The Office for National Statistics has published data on the rates of divorce between opposite sex and same sex couples at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/vitalstatisticspopulationandhealthreferencetables. The most recent data is for 2017. These rates are not directly comparable, given that no same sex marriages can date back before the first formations in 2014. The first divorces between same sex couples took place in 2015.