Written Question·Attorney General·UIN 89645

Marriage: Relatives

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 19 November 2025

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Solicitor General, what discussions her Department has had with other Government departments on proposals to make first cousin marriage unlawful.

Answer

Ellie Reeves
By long-standing convention, the fact that I, or a fellow Law Officer, may have advised or not advised, as well as the content of our advice, is not disclosed outside government.As explained in Erskine May: “By long-standing convention, observed by succes...
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