Some of you may remember my campaign calling for Mother's Names to be allowed on Marriage Certificates alongside Father's Names. (Also see article in the Telegraph.
I was forced into when the papers reported as such claimed 'victory' on this campaign in August 2014 when David Cameron remember him announced that this would change. The problem has been that the Government would not allocate parliamentary time for a bill to resolve this.....
Over 4 and a half years later one of several private members bills covering this topic has finally despite Brexit issues made it through Parliament and will be signed by Royal Assent in the next few weeks.
The bill is a private member's bill by Tim Loughton (Conservative) and also contains provision to allow for opposite sex civil partnerships (should probably be worth a separate thread) and provisions to alter the way stillbirths are recorded (apologies I am not at all up on the detail of that aspect of the bill). Well done Tim Loughton for getting this through!
You can see a video of Tim talking about the bill on his twitter feed.
I'm delighted that this matter is finally going to be fixed!
Thank you to my family (and especially my lovely Mum 
) for support and encouragement with this campaign. 
. Thank you to all the MNers who supported this - and without the FWR board I'd probably have never noticed and decided it was something to campaign about!
Special thanks to Caroline Lucus and her staff for all their support at the beginning of my campaign and for raising the profile of this in the HoC via various early day motions. Also thanks to Caroline Spelman who had a crucial role 'negotiating' between the Government and the Church of England.