"Figure 1: Number of civil partnerships in the UK by quarter of occurrence, 2005–2011","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. The Civil Partnership Act 2004 came into force on 5 December 2005 2. Figures for 2011 are provisional" "Unit","Number of civil partnerships" "","" "","Q1","Q2","Q3","Q4" "2005",".",".",".","1953" "2006","4869","4363","4492","1713" "2007","1686","2366","2963","1713" "2008","1248","1931","2459","1531" "2009","978","1656","2277","1370" "2010","962","1665","2331","1427" "2011","913","1874","2527","1481"