Same-sex couples were able to get married earlier in the year after Northern Ireland legalised abortion and same-sex marriage for the first time.
However, the initial new ruling of same-sex marriage excluded those that were already in a civil-partnership. Labour’s Conor McGinn MP, who is originally from County Armagh, proposed that Westminster legislate for same-sex marriage.
Stella Creasy MP also proposed the decriminalisation of abortion, which, alongside the same-sex marriage proposal, was carried by significant majorities.
On 7 December, legislation came into effect which enables couples to convert their same-sex civil partnership to a marriage.