Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Law Commission's report entitled Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law, HC 557, published on 19 July 2022, when he plans to respond to the recommendations in that report; and with reference to recommendation 36 in that report that couples should be able to have their schedules and marriage documents issued and completed in Welsh alone where the wedding ceremony takes place in Wales, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending that potential right to couples who would prefer Welsh documentation where the marriage takes place in England.

To date, the Government has made no assessment in the potential merits of including a Welsh-only option for people receiving registration documents in England. We will set out our position to recommendation 36, and wider marriage reform, within the formal Government response to the Law Commission in due course.