Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to introduce legislation enabling humanist marriages to be recognised.

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.