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Lord Black of Brentwood
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
March 2015
Dear Lord Black,
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent
Parliamentary Question asking Her Majesty’s Government how many civil partnerships have been
registered since the commencement of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. (HL5884)
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 came into force on 29 March 2014. The most recent civil
partnerships data that has been published relates to the 2013 calendar year, therefore we do not currently
have data for the period since the commencement of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. Civil
partnership data for 2014 will be published on the ONS website in summer 2015.
For more information, civil partnerships data are published on the ONS website at:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob2/civil-partnership-statistics--united-kingdom/index.html
Yours sincerely,
Glen Watson
Director General for ONS