Civil Wedding Ceremonies (EDM359)

Civil Wedding Ceremonies

EDM number 359 in 2005-06, proposed by Chris Bryant on 20/06/2005.

That this House commends the Registrar-General, Len Cook, on his recommendation to relax the rules governing the list of readings, songs or music that contain reference to a god or deity in civil wedding ceremonies; and looks forward to the Government bringing forward new guidelines as soon as possible.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Chris Bryant	20/06/2005	Rhondda	Labour	Proposed
Peter Bottomley	21/06/2005	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Janet Anderson	21/06/2005	Rossendale and Darwen	Labour	Seconded
David Taylor	21/06/2005	North West Leicestershire	Labour	Seconded
Martin Caton	22/06/2005	Gower	Labour	Seconded
Andrew Dismore	22/06/2005	Hendon	Labour	Seconded
Vincent Cable	22/06/2005	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adam Price	23/06/2005	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Annette Brooke	23/06/2005	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	27/06/2005	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Jenkins	28/06/2005	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Danny Alexander	28/06/2005	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Brake	29/06/2005	Carshalton and Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	29/06/2005	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Paul Flynn	29/06/2005	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	30/06/2005	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Roger Williams	30/06/2005	Brecon and Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Hemming	30/06/2005	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nick Harvey	04/07/2005	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John McDonnell	04/07/2005	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	04/07/2005	Keighley	Labour	Signed
David Borrow	06/07/2005	South Ribble	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	14/07/2005	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Sandra Osborne	19/07/2005	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	Labour	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	21/07/2005	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed

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