Decision details

Surrey County Council’s Registration & Nationality Service is proposing to align its fees and charges for marriage ceremonies and civil partnership ceremonies, along with non-statutory ceremonies such as vow renewals and naming ceremonies. In addition, following a benchmarking exercise, the service is proposing to increase its fees and charges for 2024/25 in line with inflation.

Aligning marriage and civil partnership and other non-statutory ceremonies fees and charges will mean that customers are paying a consistent and equal amount for these services. Increasing fees and charges for 2024/2025 in line with inflation will mean the Registration & Nationality Service can start to take bookings at the new rates and continue to offer a high-quality service to customers, as well as provide an important source of income for the Council.  

1) That the following changes to fees and charges for the Registration Service be approved with immediate effect:

• Civil partnership fees and charges to be aligned to those for marriages.
• Non-statutory ceremony fees and charges to be aligned to those of marriages/civil partnerships

2) That the proposed increase to fees and charges for 2024/25 in line with inflation (as detailed in Annex 1) be approved.