Laid - 7 May 2024 In Force Not stated
These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016 (“the Fees Regulations”) and the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships Records Regulations 2016 (“the Records Regulations”).
Found: Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to stop sham marriages and civil partnerships.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Government takes abuse of the spouse and partner immigration routes very seriously and is clear that family migration must be based on a genuine and subsisting marriage or relationship.
The Home Office focuses its efforts on disrupting facilitators as well as prosecuting individuals involved in sham marriages and civil partnerships and will consider refusal or cancellation of permission to stay, or removal, following any determination that a relationship is a sham.
The marriage referral and investigation scheme, introduced across the UK under the Immigration Act 2014, requires that all proposed marriages and civil partnerships where one or both parties could gain an immigration advantage from it are referred to the Home Office. Under this scheme, where we have reasonable grounds to suspect a sham relationship, the marriage notice period will be extended to allow for further investigation, and for enforcement or casework action to be taken where appropriate.
Part 9 of the Immigration Rules provides specific grounds for the refusal or cancellation of permission to enter or stay on the basis of any involvement in a sham marriage or sham civil partnership, providing a more robust and consistent framework against which immigration applications are assessed, and reflecting the seriousness of this type of abuse.
Asked by: Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat - St Albans)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure Statutory Declaration of Acknowledgement of Parentage forms are more available to parents as part of their birthing plan.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Department is not taking any such steps. NHS England’s Three-Year Delivery Plan for maternity and neonatal services sets out that all women should be offered personalised care and support plans which take account of their physical health, mental health, social complexities and choices.
Mentions:
1: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) Government’s response to the petition outlines the current approach to registering a stillbirth, with the Registration - Speech Link
2: Torrance, David (SNP - Kirkcaldy) it does not plan to make any changes to the requirement for separate registers of stillbirths and births - Speech Link
3: Stewart, Alexander (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) The latest data from the year ending 31 March 2022 reported 3,836 deaths in which cerebrovascular disease - Speech Link
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: General Register Office (HMPO) transparency data: Q4 2023Found: , death, marriage and civil partnership certificates processing adoption orders and providing a new birth
Nov. 23 2023
Source Page: General Register Office (HMPO) transparency data: Q3 2023Found: , death, marriage and civil partnership certificates processing adoption orders and providing a new birth
Nov. 23 2023
Source Page: General Register Office (HMPO) transparency data: Q3 2023Found: , death, marriage and civil partnership certificates processing adoption orders and providing a new birth
Sep. 04 2023
Source Page: The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Revocation and Sunset Disapplication) Regulations 2023Found: The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Revocation and Sunset Disapplication) Regulations
Sep. 07 2023
Source Page: Schedule 2 - Sunset of subordinate legislation and retained direct EU legislation. 24p.Found: Schedule 2 - Sunset of subordinate legislation and retained direct EU legislation. 24p.
Mentions:
1: None Deaths Registration Act 1953. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Deaths Registration Act 1953. - Speech Link
3: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) register for the registration of births and deaths and to conduct a review of the Government’s Tell - Speech Link