Sentences with phrase «extending civil partnerships»

The government agreed during the day to a Labour request to amend its own plans by launching an immediate review into extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.

Labour leader votes against amendment extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples after appeal by Tory whips

The Bill, brought forward by Tory former minister Tim Loughton and which passed at second reading, also seeks to see how the Government can extend civil partnerships to opposite - sex couples, plus to include a mother or second parent's name on marriage and civil partnership certificates.

Questions have been raised about whether we should also extend civil partnerships to opposite - sex couples.

As the government moved to smooth the passage of the bill by delaying attempts to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples, Hammond said there was no huge demand for same - sex marriage.

The government's gay marriage bill was saved after David Cameron was forced to rely on Ed Miliband to defeat an attempt by his own MPs to derail the measure by trying to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.

That change is to extend civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.

The gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last minute to vote against an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that had prompted government warnings that it would derail the entire measure.

On 21 February 2017 the Court of Appeal refused to allow their application for a judicial review of the government's decision not extend the civil partnership regime to opposite - sex couples.

Not exact matches

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Those advocating that the principle of religious freedom means that no church or faith group should be coerced into having to register civil partnerships must surely extend that religious freedom to other faith groups, who should not be refused the opportunity to do so in accordance with their own conscience and belief.

The review could mean that civil partnerships are extended to all couples — or scrapped altogether.

Now that the time is right to extend marriage to same - sex couples, it is also right we should consider the future of civil partnerships.

Not on my own account I hasten to add but in support of Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, the London couple who are challenging the Government to extend to all couples the right to a civil partnership and whose campaign came to a climax at the Supreme Court on Monday.

More than 60 Tory MPs voted to undermine civil partnerships by extending them to siblings.

The DOMA ruling does not extend to domestic partnerships or civil unions, even if the state recognizes these.

The Human Rights Act 1998 extends the meaning to Civil Partnerships — and to legal marriages in other countries.

All of these would be very readily resolved if the current civil partnership legislation was extended to unmarried different sex couples.

The Bill would extend this right to someone claiming to be a dependant, even if the deceased did not assume responsibility for their maintenance, and to anyone treated as a child of the family by the deceased even if there was no marriage or civil partnership.

Although civil partnership does offer some rights and protections, it is not equality and it does not extend all the same rights to same sex couples as marriage would, including rights...

The decision the Court had to make was whether to extend the law to allow opposite - sex couples to enter into civil partnerships.

Civil partnerships in the UK have been designed to extend nearly the same rights as marriage does to heterosexual couples.