Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships

(asked on 21st July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the backlog is for the registration of births.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 3rd September 2020

Birth registrations in England and Wales are being completed where they can be safely delivered in line with public health and local authority guidelines.

There are currently around 97,400 unregistered births; this includes those within the normal 42 days period for registering a birth.

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