Results 1-20 of 386 for equal marriage
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013) See 9 other results from this debate
Julian Huppert: ...because of their gender or sexuality, whether they are straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or whatever, and that the state should not ban groups who wish to conduct same-sex marriages from doing so. This is an important day, and it is a day to celebrate. When my party passed a motion on equal marriage in the UK three years ago, I did not think that we would be able to...
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage (21 May 2013) See 8 other results from this debate
Helen Grant: ...to decide what action is appropriate if that happens. I do not want to prejudge the appeal. I shall now deal with the non-Government amendments on gender reassignment. Amendment 15 would enable a marriage to be held to be continuously valid from the date of the original marriage solemnisation, effectively restoring the original marriage. Amendment 22 would allow couples who have continued...
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations (21 May 2013) See 19 other results from this debate
Iain McKenzie: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will take your direction and end by simply saying that respecting faith and belief and equality are essential and must be extended to humanist marriages.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 16 — Review of civil partnership (20 May 2013) See 14 other results from this debate
Julian Huppert: ...—and also a challenge—to follow the right hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Nick Herbert), who is very passionate about this issue and who has championed the cause of same-sex marriage with great authority. People will want to arrange their relationships in a number of different ways. Some will want to have marriages; some will want to have civil partnerships; some will...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 6 — Beliefs about marriage (20 May 2013)
‘(1) In the Equality Act 2010, after section 10(3), insert — “(4) The protected characteristic of religion or belief may include a belief regarding the definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.”.’.—(Mr Burrowes.) Brought up, and read the First time. Question put, That the clause be read a Second time. The House divided: Ayes 148, Noes 339.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Clause 2 — Marriage according to religious rites: no compulsion to solemnize etc (20 May 2013)
Amendment made: 23, page 3, line 43, at end insert— ‘( ) In section 110 of the Equality Act 2010 (liability of employees and agents), after subsection (5) insert— (5A) A does not contravene this section if A— (a) does not conduct a relevant marriage, (b) is not present at, does not carry out, or does not otherwise participate in, a relevant...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 1 — Education Act 1996 (20 May 2013) See 17 other results from this debate
Chris Bryant: ...generous, but there is not much time. A registrar is there solely to register that which is lawful. They are paid by all taxpayers, not just by some taxpayers. If Parliament decides that same-sex marriages are lawful, how can it be right for somebody to be rejected? Why do we not introduce a clause that says that sextons, who are public employees, can refuse to bury suicides, or that a...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (20 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate
Peter Bottomley: .... If we are going to extend the opportunity and the right to those who qualify and who choose to do so to get married, and recognise the difference between a civil partnership, now accepted, and an equal civil marriage where they are allowed to say “I do” and “I declare”, that is not the biggest thing the House has done. I hope we manage to get through these two...
- Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Regulation (20 May 2013)
Hugh Robertson: ...One-in, Two-out rule replaced the One-in, One-out rule from January 2013. EU derived regulatory measures are out of scope of OIOO and OITO. The machinery of government change brought the Government Equalities Office (GEO) under control of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in September 2012. This table also covers the period when GEO was under the control of the Secretary...
- Business of the House (16 May 2013)
Angela Eagle: ...re-election without an election as Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, which is to her enormous credit. Next week the House will return, albeit briefly, to debate the remaining stages of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. This will ensure that the historic progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality accomplished by the previous Government will be consolidated. I...
- Economic Growth (15 May 2013)
Danny Alexander: ...East Derbyshire (Natascha Engel) spoke against HS2 partly on the basis that there had been a decline in wedding bookings at an important venue in her constituency. I hope very much the progress of the equal marriage Bill will help raise demand at that venue. In a debate focused on jobs and growth, a lot of Members have talked about the subject of Europe, and I have to say that I do not...
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate
James Duddridge: ...quite controversial. I did not listen to every single speech today; I missed half an hour. While I nipped out for a cup of tea, I heard colleagues on this side of the House speaking out against equal marriage—perhaps some Opposition Members did so as well—but I for one am glad that that legislation will be dealt with in this Session. The carry-over motion will ensure that we...
- Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (9 May 2013) See 12 other results from this debate
Lord Taylor of Holbeach: ...far and wide, and way beyond the areas I have been briefed on, but that is the nature of having to wind up a debate of this kind. However, we have dealt with topics such as constitutional affairs, equalities, home affairs, justice and the law. My noble friend Lord Cormack complained that this is a thin Queen’s Speech, but I think noble Lords will agree that his definition of thinness...
- Home Affairs (9 May 2013)
David Hanson: ...way. We welcome measures on dog control and gun manufacture, and we look at those in detail although we may wish to strengthen them in due course. I welcome the important regulation on forced marriage, and particularly proposals on police accountability and extending the role of the Independent Police Complaints Commission to private sector contractors—an equally important issue...