Editing Peerages in the United Kingdom (section)

== Attempted primogeniture reforms ==
Since the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted a series of reforms (from the 1960s onward) to the [[Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Modern honours|honours system]], few hereditary titles have been created (the last being created in 1990), while life peerages have proliferated, allowing for more openly LGBT persons to be appointed to the [[House of Lords]]. However, despite the legalization of [[Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom|civil partnerships]] for same-sex couples in 2004 and [[Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom|marriage]] for same-sex couples in 2013, spouses of ennobled civil partners have not been allowed the extension of title and privilege from their spouses' ennoblements as those accorded to married opposite-sex spouses of ennobled persons. In July 2012, Conservative MP [[Oliver Colvile]] announced a [[private member's bill]], titled "[[Honours (Equality of Titles for Partners) Bill 2012-13]]", to amend the honours system to both allow husbands of those made [[Dame (title)|dames]] and for civil partners of recipients to receive honours by their relationship statuses.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Stephen |date=2 July 2012 |title=Tory MP's bill calls for partners of gay knights to receive honorary titles |url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/07/02/tory-mps-bill-calls-for-partners-of-gay-knights-to-receive-honorary-titles/ |access-date=2012-07-30 |publisher=PinkNews.co.uk}}</ref> Another bill, the [[Equality (Titles) Bill]], which would allow for both [[Equal primogeniture|female first-born descendants to inherit hereditary titles]] as well as for "husbands and civil partners" of honours recipients "to use equivalent honorary titles to those available to wives", was introduced by [[Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas|Lord Lucas]] in the House of Lords on 13 May 2013, but did not progress past Committee stage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Equality (Titles) Bill [HL] 2013-14 |url=http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/equalitytitles.html |publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom}}</ref> Similar legislation was introduced in [[Succession to Peerages Bill (2015–16)|2015]], [[Succession to Peerages Bill (2016–17)|2016]] and [[Succession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill|2023]].