Home Office written question – answered at on 10 March 2025.
Baroness Taylor of Bolton
Chair, Industry and Regulators Committee, Chair, Industry and Regulators Committee
To ask His Majesty's Government why the HM Passport Office General Register Office Death Certificate Application Form (for events registered overseas) asks a question about marital status "if deceased is female", but the same question is not asked in relation to males.
Lord Hanson of Flint
The Minister of State, Home Department
The General Register Office (GRO) Death Certificate Application Form (for events registered overseas) asks for ‘Marital Status’ only if deceased is female, as the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 specifically defines ‘maiden surname’ in England and Wales as the name a woman has prior to her first marriage or civil partnership.
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