Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Welsh Language

(asked on 6th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent review her Department has conducted of the format and provision of the Welsh language on registration documents provided by the General Register Office in Wales.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 12th July 2021

The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 requires all events to be registered in the registration district in which they take place. The forms which are used are prescribed in secondary legislation. Where an event takes place in Wales, the information to be recorded in the registration can be provided and recorded in English only, or in both English and Welsh.

The General Register Office (GRO) has not conducted a recent review of the format and provision of the Welsh language on registration documents.

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