Clause 1 - Civil partnership
Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]
9:45 am
Mr Alan Duncan (Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, International Affairs; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
The issue is critical. We have not discussed the Finance Bill in Committee, but we will have to do so, because the Civil Partnership Bill really comes into effect only at the time of the next available Finance Bill, and without such a Bill, we have not got anywhere yet with this Bill.