Latest Parliamentary Activity by Cambridge's MP:
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas - Tuesday May 21 2013
I will try, Mr Speaker.On the Liberal Democrat Benches, we believe that the state should not bar a couple who love each other from marrying just because of their gender or sexuality, whether they are straight, g ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas - Tuesday May 21 2013
rose— ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage - Tuesday May 21 2013
We have discussed some important and detailed issues that matter intensely to a range of people. I am grateful for the tone in which the debate has been conducted by almost everybody; it has been productive. I know that people from the ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage - Tuesday May 21 2013
It is absolutely discriminatory. It is also the case that a bisexual man or woman would pay at the same rate and would get a different pension transferred depending who they happen to end up with. That seems truly bizarre. The position ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage - Tuesday May 21 2013
I find it very bizarre. There are a number of anomalies in the whole process because of how it is set up, but a gender recognition certificate may be applied for only two years after someone has transitioned into the acquired gender fu ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage - Tuesday May 21 2013
The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. In many cases, of course, there is no problem, and there are technical ways in which the issue has been resolved. It is already possible for people to transition and the state manages to c ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage - Tuesday May 21 2013
I beg to move amendment 15, page 10, line 24, at end add—‘(9) Where a civil partnership formed under part 1, section 96 of the C ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage - Tuesday May 21 2013
We now move on to a rather different subject, but it is still an important one that affects a number of people greatly. A range of issues apply specifically to people who change their gender, who transition between genders or who are t ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
There are many points on which I would love to tackle the Secretary of State, including the idea that the amendments are allowing everybody in one version, and not enough people in another, and that either way they fail the Goldilocks ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
I do not think that the Secretary of State quite addressed the question put by the hon. Member for Reigate (Mr Blunt), which was whether in pri ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
I thank the hon. Gentleman for making that point. I should declare that I am a member of the British Humanist Association and an officer of the all-party parliamentary humanist group, and I have spoken to a number of people who have co ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
I thank the right hon. Lady for reading out the rest of the letter, and I am happy for anybody to see it; I see that her Parliamentary Private Secretary has copies of it. She is right that it did not say that the Government supported t ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
It is a great pleasure to follow the excellent speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Hove (Mike Weatherley). I also want to pay huge tribut ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
I respect my right hon. Friend on many things, but I disagree with quite a lot of what he is saying. Is he genuinely saying that he would deny faith groups, which believe marriage should truly be equal, the ability to do that, because ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful speech and is generous in giving way. There is an issue of how to deal with legal advice. Does he agree that the law is capable of being constructive and not just a constraint and that it would t ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
Will the hon. Gentleman give way? ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
I am not a tiddlywinks expert, but I am a humanist. I am a member of the British Humanist Association and the all-party humanist group. The hon. Gentleman may be aware that there has been a judgment on the what test should be for serio ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
Six hundred. ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
A couple of hon. Members have said that the new clause would unpick the locks, but they have so far failed to say in what way—I hope that the hon. Gentleman agrees—because we already have exemptions for Jews and Quakers, wh ... - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations - Tuesday May 21 2013
I think that the hon. Gentleman has now accepted that he was not correct to say that all marriage in this country is tied to place, because as has been discussed, that is not the case for Jews and for Quakers. He has consistently made ...