Marriage: Relatives
Commons · Question 107847 · Tabled 22 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 30 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of marriages between cousins that have taken place in the UK in each of the last ten years.
Answer
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones, 30 Jan 2026
The number of marriages between relatives, mainly cousins, is not a data set that is collected and the Government therefore cannot give an estimate.The Office for National Statistics publishes marriage statistics derived from information recorded at the p...