Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships — Written Question

Question

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Labour — Clapham and Brixton Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 to include registration of the father during a registration of birth, unless reason to om

Answer

Mike Tapp

There are currently no plans to change the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 to amend the circumstances in which the father’s details may be entered on a birth registration. The latest available data from the Office for National Statistics shows tha...

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