Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 121406

Marriage

Tabled: 17 March 2026

Answered: 23 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Mr Richard Holden

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy not to recognise overseas marriages that would be illegal under UK law.

Answer

Jake Richards

There are no plans to change the law that an overseas marriage is normally recognised in England and Wales if it complied with the requirements for the form of the ceremony where it took place (meaning by whom, where, when and how it was conducted) and if...

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