Clause 1 - Civil partnership
Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Mr Andrew Selous (PPS To Shadow Foreign Secretary, International Affairs; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way early on in her remarks. At column 1138 of the Official Report of 29 March 2004, the Government said of the other groups to whom the Minister referred—she said that it was not appropriate to deal with their injustices in this Bill—that they had no plans for changes to the law in that field. Either now or when she responds to later debates, will the Minister be kind enough to tell the Committee the Government's thinking on when they might get round to those other groups, whose injustices are not being remedied with those that are being dealt with in the Bill?