Couples should be offered cash incentives to encourage them to tie the knot, campaigners in the UK have urged.

Government Ministers have been warned that the number of Britons committing to each other is at a record low and must be brought back up.

The Marriage Foundation says offering financial perks has worked in Hungary and should be explored in the UK.

It hailed the dramatic uptick – 92 per cent between 2010 and 2020 – in the European nation as “nothing short of a miracle”.

And that it showed the power of the “right policies and financial incentives” .

Surveys found far fewer people on lower incomes get married than higher incomes, with the organisation citing financial disincentives.

Report author Harry Benson said: “Low income families stand to lose as much as £10,000 every year of tax credit or Universal Credit entitlement if they live together or marry.