Civil partnerships
The number of civil partnerships formed in the UK by same-sex couples was 6,795 in 2011 compared with 6,385 in 2010.
The total number of civil partnerships formed in the UK since the Civil Partnership Act came into force in December 2005, up to the end of 2011, is 53,417.
There was a 28.7 per cent increase in the number of civil partnership dissolutions in 2011 with 572 partnerships ending in dissolution.
Source: Civil Partnerships in the UK 2011 Office of National Statistics Statistical Bulletin July 2012