Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government plans to bring section 199 of the Equality Act 2010 into force.

Since section 199 of the Equality Act 2010 was enacted, no date has been set for this section to come into force. Section 199 relates to a longstanding common law presumption dating back centuries.

As part of its ongoing duty to consider equalities impacts, the Government considers that husbands and wives have equal access to financial remedy orders under Part II of the Matrimonial Causes Act (MCA) 1973.