Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 107847

Marriage: Relatives

Tabled: 22 January 2026

Answered: 30 January 2026

Question

Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of marriages between cousins that have taken place in the UK in each of the last ten years.

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones

The number of marriages between relatives, mainly cousins, is not a data set that is collected and the Government therefore cannot give an estimate.The Office for National Statistics publishes marriage statistics derived from information recorded at the p...

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