Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to allow weddings to take place outside without the need for a permanent structure or in an approved structure, on a permanent basis.

On 20 December 2021, the Government launched a public consultation on outdoor weddings and civil partnerships. The consultation set out, and sought views on, the Government’s proposal to continue to permit outdoor civil marriages and civil partnerships on approved premises indefinitely, and separately to permit outdoor religious marriages in the grounds of places of worship.

The Government response to the consultation will be published in due course.