Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment 2, page 1, line 15, lea...

I am pleased to speak to these amendments, which I am confident will make the Bill clearer and cl...

Will my hon. Friend, like me, welcome the fact that Northern Ireland is consulting on raising the...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Northern Ireland is consulting, and I think that Scotlan...

I am delighted to respond to my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham), both for ...

May I begin by thanking the Public Bill Committee, which met on 12 January to consider the Bill i...

May I take this opportunity to commend my hon. Friend for her tireless campaigning on this most i...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that, and he is absolutely right. I know that he, too, has been ...

My hon. Friend says that it is the children using this exemption, but in Committee, where I suppo...

My hon. Friend is right: this is about coercion, persuasion and accepting that this is the norm i...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak on such an important Bill. I feel proud and...

Very moving.

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I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) for this Bill and for her tir...

Order. Mr Speaker will come in just before 11 am for the urgent question. Whoever is on their fee...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) for introducing the Bill and al...

I welcome the Bill, which is to:

“Make provision about the minimum age for marriage and civ...