Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to allow parents to be listed as the gender neutral category parent or birth-parent on their children's birth certificates.

Civil registration in the UK is a devolved matter and there are separate systems in place for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In England and Wales, a birth entry records the name of the child’s mother and, where certain conditions can be met as set out in law, either the name of the father or a second female parent.

There are currently no plans in England and Wales to change how parents are recorded in birth entries or on birth certificates.