Errr .... I don't think that's quite true. Doesn't the Married Couple's Allowance still exist? It's a bit complex, but IIRC, if you are married or in a civil partnership, the higher-earning member of the couple gets an extra allowance - it's tapered by income down to a minimum. Off the top of my head it's worth between £1000 and £250 a year.
I'm sure I also remember the Tories promising £150 a year as a marriage incentive in the Election; I think but am not sure that they specified in small print that civil partners could have it too. I don't think that's made it through to legislation. And don't expect it to either, given the climate.
If you take £500 as an average figure of the MCA, the £5bn stated cost would work out as an extra 10 million married-or-civil-partnered couples, or 20 million people. That seems ... a bit high as an estimate to my mind, given that there are only 60 million people in the country, of whom a large proportion lot are under 18 or already married/CPed.
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I'm sure I also remember the Tories promising £150 a year as a marriage incentive in the Election; I think but am not sure that they specified in small print that civil partners could have it too. I don't think that's made it through to legislation. And don't expect it to either, given the climate.
If you take £500 as an average figure of the MCA, the £5bn stated cost would work out as an extra 10 million married-or-civil-partnered couples, or 20 million people. That seems ... a bit high as an estimate to my mind, given that there are only 60 million people in the country, of whom a large proportion lot are under 18 or already married/CPed.