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Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone has posted on her website that the Government remains committed to the introduction of gay marriage and still intends to legislate on the matter by 2015.

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The Office for National Statistics has recently published an analysis of the conception rate in England and Wales for 2010.

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Gay rights organisation, Stonewall, has published a draft parliamentary bill outlining the legislative steps necessary to extend the legal form of marriage to gay people.

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The Government has announced that a public consultation to consider how to make civil marriage available to same-sex couples will begin in March 2012.

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The Office for National Statistics has recently published a report tracking key trends in civil partnerships in the first five years since their introduction in 2005.

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A couple who lived together for 40 years and entered into a civil partnership in 2006 have won their tribunal claim that civil partners should get the same benefits as spouses under an occupational pension scheme.

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The Government's consultation on marriage equality and civil partnerships has been pushed back from the summer, and is now expected to take place this autumn, reports Pink News.

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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that a supplementary retirement pension paid to a partner in a civil partnership, which is lower than that granted in a marriage, may constitute discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. This is the case if the partnership is reserved to persons of the same gender and if it is in a legal and factual situation comparable to that of marriage.

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