Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring legislative proposals to Parliament to allow the legal recognition of humanist marriages.

The Government has consulted on whether the law should be changed to allow legally valid humanist and potentially other non-religious belief marriages. We are considering the responses we received and the implications for marriage law and practice if a change were to be made. We plan to publish the Government’s response to the review before 1 January 2015.