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Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

Lead member
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames
Answering member
Baroness Levitt; Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
Department
Ministry of Justice
Type
Debates on bills
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc840-857
House
House of Lords

My Lords, this is not the first time I have introduced a Bill in this form that closely follows the Law Commission recommendations for financial relief for cohabitants in 2007, and for improving a cohabitant’s position on the death of an intestate partner in 2011.

However, we now have a real...

Member
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc840-2
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I am delighted to be able to support the noble Lord, Lord Marks, in introducing his Second Reading of this Cohabitation Rights Bill. In lay man’s language, I suppose one could

call it the “unmarried couples divorce Bill”. The Bill reflects modern societal habits and ways of living,...

Member
Lord Garnier (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc842-3
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I am very happy often to bow to the expertise of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier. It is unnecessary for him to be quite so polite about me, although I am grateful to him for it.

I supported the earlier Bill from the noble Lord, Lord Marks,...

Member
Baroness Butler-Sloss (Crossbench)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc843-4
House
House of Lords

My Lords, listening to the speech from the noble Lord, Lord Marks, has entirely ruined the speech I had prepared. I was about to come heavily down against the Bill, because I come from a very poor community where marriage is almost non-existent and many of our poor social outcomes...

Member
Lord Bailey of Paddington (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc844-5
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I welcome this Bill and thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks, for introducing it. The Bill would provide important legal protections for many financially vulnerable people in cohabiting relationships. It would benefit women in religious-only marriages, so I am going to focus my comments on Muslim women.

Around 25%...

Member
Baroness Gohir (Crossbench)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc845-6
House
House of Lords

My Lords, this Bill would impose a far-reaching legal regime on millions of adults who have expressly chosen not to marry or enter a civil partnership. The fact that some may think they have rights is no justification for taking away the liberty of others. Some may not know the...

Member
Baroness Deech (Crossbench)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc846-8
House
House of Lords

My Lords, this may have been one of those occasions when noble Lords felt that they should have started their speeches with, “As I was saying”. I do not think I have spoken on this subject before, although I have listened to a number of debates. My noble friend has...

Member
Baroness Hamwee (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc847-9
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames, who has pursued this issue with—if I may say so—characteristic persistence and conviction over many years, introducing substantially similar Bills on a number of occasions. These Bills undoubtedly raise important questions of law, policy and fairness.

I do...

Member
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc849-850
House
House of Lords

The noble Lord called me “the noble Lord”.

Member
Baroness Levitt (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 c850
House
House of Lords

I am sorry. I did slip into that. I know that sometimes people say “the noble Lord”; I was not trying to be rude or forget that the Minister is in fact a noble Baroness. I hope she will forgive me; it was entirely accidental and unintended.

My Lords, and the...

Member
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc850-2
House
House of Lords

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to speak after the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson. Of course I accept his apology for what was obviously a slip of the tongue. Before I turn to the points he made, which are interesting and valid as always, I start with the noble...

Member
Baroness Levitt (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc852-5
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I am very grateful to everyone who has contributed to this debate on a Private Member’s Bill. It is an unusual position that we find ourselves in, with my Private Member’s Bill, which was introduced just after the

King’s Speech, and the consultation, which was announced on 5...

Member
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 July 2026
Reference
858 cc855-7
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to enable data sharing between Government departments and the Child Maintenance Service for the purposes of locating a non-resident parent.

Asked by
Lee Dillon (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 June 2026
Reference
7327
House
House of Commons
Date
5 June 2026
Reference
CP 1581
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds information on the number of home educated children with separated parents living at different addresses.

Asked by
Abtisam Mohamed (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 April 2026
Reference
128906
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of visiting several homes, including where the non-resident parent lives out of the area, on local authorities under provisions in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill for local authorities to visit home educated...

Asked by
Abtisam Mohamed (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 April 2026
Reference
128909
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the non-resident parent will be subject to sanctions if the resident parent refuses a visit request under provisions in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill for local authorities to visit home educated children at more than one home.

Asked by
Abtisam Mohamed (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 April 2026
Reference
128908
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the resident parent will be subject to sanctions if the non-resident parent refuses a visit request under provisions in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill for local authorities to visit home educated children at more than one home.

Asked by
Abtisam Mohamed (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 April 2026
Reference
128907
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment has been made of whether children’s social care practice adequately supports parents who are experiencing post-separation abuse.

Asked by
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 February 2026
Reference
112894
House
House of Commons