Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the feasibility of increasing the number of people allowed to attend weddings at licensed venues where the event is (a) seated and (b) social distancing measures can be adhered to.

Wedding receptions can only take place in a COVID-19 secure environment which adheres to the appropriate guidelines which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships.

The limit of 15 people at a wedding reception from 28 September will remain one of the few occasions when people are legally permitted to gather in groups of more than 6 people.