Marriage Registration Certificates

I am well aware that that is one of the sticking points, but as the right hon. Lady will be aware...

I quite understand the hon. Lady’s point, but as she will see in the course of my speech, there i...

I congratulate the right hon. Lady on bringing the important subject to the House. On Friday, we ...

Just before the right hon. Lady continues, may I remind Members not to use the names of other Mem...

Sorry, I could not remember his constituency.

Nor can I, off the top of my head. The hon. Member for Ealing Central and Acton (Dr Huq)might hav...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing this important debate. I just want to clarify som...

No, I can reassure my hon. Friend on that. The mothers’ names will appear. I can tell hon. Member...

The right hon. Lady is making an interesting point. That, in fact, happened to me. My father died...

That is certainly one way of doing it. I will need to look closely at the Bill tabled by the hon....

I recognise and commend the right hon. Lady’s desire for the proposal to be made on the Floor of ...

I am not convinced. This subject lends itself to private Members’ legislation, as do a number of ...

I do not want to burst the right hon. Lady’s bubble, because she has far more experience of this ...

That is not quite true. In my 18 years here, private Members’ Bills have become law, but I agree ...

The right hon. Lady is being very patient in giving way. Again, I put it to her that an actual Bi...

I secured this debate so that I could run through my concerns in advance of thinking about what f...

I am delighted that the right hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs Spelman) has secured this debate. As h...

My hon. Friend is making an important point about the Bill that she introduced. Does she agree th...

I agree totally. It can be discussed and agreed in due course, because there is widespread suppor...

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He said that he would ask the Home Office how it could be addressed.

I apologise for my keenness to intervene. My hon. Friend mentioned the Prime Minister. I think th...

I could not possibly comment on that.

Go on.

I agree with everything that my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing Central and Acton (Dr Huq)says....

Does the hon. Lady appreciate that the announcement of the private Member’s Bill prompted, among ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for acknowledging that the Bill prompted action and a consul...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Brady, and to speak in this debate, which w...

I did not declare my interest as a mother before; I do so now.

The hon. Lady makes an excel...

The hon. Lady makes a point that I will come on to shortly.

First, however, I will again qu...

There is a rare exception by which a mother’s details can be included; it is if she has been auth...

I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. Sadly, this matter involving my constituent never ca...

My hon. Friend is making a very powerful speech and I was greatly interested in her significant p...

I could not agree more. Personally, however, I am not sure whether including the mother’s name on...

It is a pleasure to serve under you, Mr Streeter.

The arguments for changing marriage certi...

This issue has a long history, but there can be absolutely no doubt about where public opinion is...

I absolutely agree.

I have also found that men and women who are interested in family histo...

I want to draw my hon. Friend’s attention to The Daily Telegraph, which is not normally sympathet...

Well, if the Torygraph says it, we must agree with it. I agree with my hon. Friend, who puts a lo...

Of course we can make this party political, but is it worth it? We have waited two centuries for ...

I do not want to make things party political, but I do want to put pressure on the Government to ...

I suppose I should declare an interest as well, as the mother of a 21-year-old daughter. However,...

I agree with my hon. Friend. As I said at the beginning, I am grateful to the right hon. Member f...

To be clear, there is nothing in the Bill introduced by the hon. Member for Neath (Christina Rees...

I will not speak about the Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Christina Rees...

The point is that regulation can be changed at any time; if these things are put in primary legis...

I thank my hon. Friend.

I will just make a few final points. It is worth noting that countr...

It is a great pleasure, as ever, to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Brady. Let me congratulate ...

I had a similar experience when I got married many years ago. My father died when I was a young t...

That shows the importance of the Bill that the hon. Lady has introduced. We bring a lot of our ow...

We have about 35 minutes, which should be plenty of time, I hope, for three Front-Bench winding-u...

It was Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, who wrote:

“While Europe’s eye is fix’d on m...

On behalf of ordinary, average, not brilliant, fantastic mothers everywhere, I want to say that s...

That is exactly the point I was coming on to. The idea that mothers who bring up the doctors, plu...

My sister reminded me on Sunday that as early as the 1960s Church of England ministers saw the li...

Interestingly enough, my father passed away a number of years ago and it fell to my mother to rem...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mr Brady.

I, too, sta...

It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Brady. I may be competing with the Division ...

I am delighted to hear what the Minister is saying. It is news to me. Does he mean that we can as...

As the hon. Lady will know, I cannot speak for every private Members’ Bill. The 1994 Act was brou...

Will the Minister work with me to make the private Member’s Bill cover the things he mentions bet...

I cannot pledge to work with the hon. Lady on the Bill, because I am not convinced that it is the...

I believe we have an imminent vote, so I will be quick. The hon. Member for Glasgow North East (A...