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My honourable friend the Minister of State for Crime Prevention (Norman Baker) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Today we are publishing our progress report on the Coalition Government’s hate crime action plan. A copy will be placed in the House Library.
Hate crime can have devastating consequences for victims...
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Crime Prevention (Norman Baker) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Today we are publishing our progress report on the Coalition Government’s hate crime action plan. A copy will be placed in the House Library.
Hate crime can have devastating consequences for victims...
Today we are publishing our progress report on the coalition Government’s hate crime action plan. A copy will be placed in the House Library.
Hate crime can have devastating consequences for victims and their families, and can also divide communities.
In March 2012, we published “Challenge it, Report it, Stop it”,...
Today we are publishing our progress report on the coalition Government’s hate crime action plan. A copy will be placed in the House Library.
Hate crime can have devastating consequences for victims and their families, and can also divide communities.
In March 2012, we published “Challenge it, Report it, Stop it”,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if his Department will publish its assessment of the UK Council for Psychotherapy's February 2014 report on Conversion therapy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if his Department will publish its assessment of the UK Council for Psychotherapy's February 2014 report on Conversion therapy.
There are no plans to publish an assessment of the UK Council for Psychotherapy's Joint Statement on Conversion Therapy.
Being lesbian, gay or bisexual is not an illness to be treated or cured. We are therefore concerned about this issue of gay to straight conversion therapy.
The Department is pursuing a number of initiatives with the UK Council for Psychotherapy and other professional bodies.
On 28 February, following discussions with the Department, the UK Council for Psychotherapy produced a statement opposing gay conversion therapy with the support and assistance of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, the British Psychological Society, the British Psychoanalytic Council, Stonewall and Pink Therapy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he has had with the Chief Coroner's Office on collecting sexual orientation data on people who have committed suicide.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he has had with the Chief Coroner's Office on collecting sexual orientation data on people who have committed suicide.
The Chief Coroner attended a meeting of the Department's National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group on 14 March 2013 where the issue of collecting sexual orientation data on people who have committed suicide was discussed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his policy is on issuing apologies to those historically prosecuted for their sexuality who have not yet been pardoned.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his policy is on issuing apologies to those historically prosecuted for their sexuality who have not yet been pardoned.
Alan Turing received an apology from the then Prime Minister in 2009, as did others who were convicted of the same offence. Other convicted of the same offence have now died. Mr Turing received a Royal Pardon from Her Majesty the Queen on Christmas Eve 2013 on the recommendations of the Secretary of State for Justice.
The many thousands of men convicted as a result of homophobic laws were treated terribly. It is a matter of the greatest regret when anyone has been punished as a result of archaic laws. I share the sentiments of the then Prime Minister who said that we are glad those days have long gone.
Under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, any living person who has been convicted of, or received a caution for, an offence under section 13 or section 22 of the Sexual Offences Act, can apply to have that conviction of caution disregarded.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent representations he has received on conversion therapy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent representations he has received on conversion therapy.
The Department has recently received a number of representations on conversion therapy including three parliamentary questions, 35 pieces of correspondence and an adjournment debate which took place in Westminster Hall on 20 November 2013.
We have also received a number of representations on the regulation of psychotherapists, some of which have been prompted by concerns around conversion therapy or the Private Member's ‘Counsellors and Psychotherapists (Regulation) Bill 2013-14’ which contains a requirement for a code of practice which
"must include a prohibition on gay to straight conversion therapy".
The Department is working with the UK Council for Psychotherapy and NHS England to minimise the risk that lesbians, gay men and bisexual people who seek counselling about their sexuality will encounter therapists attempting to change their sexual orientation because the therapist considers that being gay is wrong.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to his Nigerian counterpart following the passage of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act in that country; and with which international counterparts he has discussed the Act's compatibility with (a) the Commonwealth Charter and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to his Nigerian counterpart following the passage of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act in that country; and with which international counterparts he has discussed the Act's compatibility with (a) the Commonwealth Charter and...
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), made a public statement on 15 January and highlighted our concerns with the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act in Nigeria. the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Jeremy Wright), raised these concerns with the Nigerian Foreign Minister on 9 January 2014, as did our High Commissioner in Abuja with the Nigerian Attorney-General the same day. During the Act's passage through the National Assembly we made our concerns about it clear to the Nigerian Government.
We are clear that the Same Sex Marriage Bill infringes both the human rights of the Nigerian LGBT community and the rights of expression and association, which are guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution and by Nigeria's international treaty obligations. We also consider that the Bill is not compatible with The Commonwealth Charter. We have discussed this with international partners, including the US and the EU both of whom have also issued statements of concern.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with his Commonwealth counterparts on amending the Commonwealth Charter to include opposition to discrimination on the basis of sexuality.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with his Commonwealth counterparts on amending the Commonwealth Charter to include opposition to discrimination on the basis of sexuality.
The UK has not had any discussions on the amendment of the Commonwealth Charter. The Commonwealth Charter states:
"We are implacably opposed to all forms of discrimination, whether rooted in gender, race, colour, creed, political belief or other grounds".
It remains our view that the phrase "all forms of discrimination" on "other grounds" covers discrimination against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community as well as any other form of discrimination.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to his Ugandan counterpart following the approval of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill by the Ugandan Parliament; and what assessment he has made of the decision of President Museveni decision not to sign this Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to his Ugandan counterpart following the approval of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill by the Ugandan Parliament; and what assessment he has made of the decision of President Museveni decision not to sign this Bill.
The Bill was passed by the Ugandan Parliament on 20 December 2013, and requires Presidential Assent to become law. President Museveni is yet to respond formally. We have consistently raised our concerns about the Bill with the Ugandan Government at the most senior levels, both before it was passed by Parliament and after. Most recently, I last raised this issue with the Ugandan Foreign Minister during a meeting on 28 January 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to the Indian government about legislation in that country which may discriminate against or criminalise individuals on the grounds of their sexuality or the expression of that sexuality.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to the Indian government about legislation in that country which may discriminate against or criminalise individuals on the grounds of their sexuality or the expression of that sexuality.
We are following developments on the Indian Supreme Court decision closely and I discussed this issue with the new Indian high commissioner at our first meeting on 6 January. It is important that India's democratic institutions work through this issue. The UK's global policy is that human rights are universal and should apply equally to all people, as enshrined in Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and that to render consenting same-sex relations illegal is incompatible with international human rights laws, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what her policy is on advertisements of gay-to-straight conversion therapies; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what her policy is on advertisements of gay-to-straight conversion therapies; and if she will make a statement.
Advertising in the UK is regulated by the independent Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) which is ultimately responsible for setting the standards in advertising. If advertisements mislead or cause harm or distress, the matter will be dealt with first by the ASA.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress her Department has made in investigating claims that the UK Border Agency asked lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender asylum seekers to prove their sexuality.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress her Department has made in investigating claims that the UK Border Agency asked lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender asylum seekers to prove their sexuality.
[holding answer 8 November 2013]: Asylum applicants are afforded ample opportunity to establish the reasons they fear persecution, including where that fear is based on the grounds of their sexuality. Asylum decision makers are trained to make sensitive and appropriate enquiries to explore the sexual orientation of an applicant where that is relevant to a claim. But the Home Office does not require evidence of an explicit nature to support asylum claims based on sexual orientation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance his Department gives local planning authorities on asking people to state their sexual orientation when completing their responses to Joint Core Strategy or Local Plan consultation documents; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance his Department gives local planning authorities on asking people to state their sexual orientation when completing their responses to Joint Core Strategy or Local Plan consultation documents; and if he will make a statement.
In November 2012 DCLG issued statutory guidance to local authorities stating that in the interests of economy and efficiency, it is not necessary for authorities to undertake lifestyle or diversity questionnaires of suppliers or residents. This was reinforced in ‘50 ways to save: examples of sensible savings in local government’ published in December 2012.
I refer my hon. Friend to the written ministerial statement made on 1 July 2013, Official Report, column 24-5WS, in which I announced the cancellation of the practice guidance ‘Diversity and Equality in Planning’ which was issued by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2005.
The cancellation ended the need to carry out lifestyle and diversity surveys and equality impact assessments. It also removed the need for councils to translate into foreign languages, which undermines integration by discouraging people from learning English.
My right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary discussed our concern about those attacks when they met their Russian opposite numbers last month.
My right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary discussed our concern about those attacks when they met their Russian opposite numbers last month.
What recent discussions he has had with the Russian government regarding violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia.
As the Minister knows, there is significant and growing concern in this country about violence in particular but also about the banning of certain publications, and about threats to remove children from LGBT couples. Will he consider raising the issue with the Council of Europe?
As the Minister knows, there is significant and growing concern in this country about violence in particular but also about the banning of certain publications, and about threats to remove children from LGBT couples. Will he consider raising the issue with the Council of Europe?
We will certainly consider raising, at every possible opportunity, our concern both about Russian legislation on the matter and about what is, inevitably, anecdotal evidence of appalling attacks on individual LGBT Russian citizens and civil society organisations.
We will certainly consider raising, at every possible opportunity, our concern both about Russian legislation on the matter and about what is, inevitably, anecdotal evidence of appalling attacks on individual LGBT Russian citizens and civil society organisations.
We will certainly consider raising, at every possible opportunity, our concern both about Russian legislation on the matter and about what is, inevitably, anecdotal evidence of appalling attacks on individual LGBT Russian citizens and civil society organisations.
As the Minister knows, there is significant and growing concern in this country about violence in particular but also about the banning of certain publications, and about threats to remove children from LGBT couples. Will he consider raising the issue with the Council of Europe?
Does the Minister agree that, while these attacks are quite outrageous—as is the fact that the Russian Government seem to be legislating towards such behaviour—it is better to engage with Russia than to boycott events if we are to bring about change?
Does the Minister agree that, while these attacks are quite outrageous—as is the fact that the Russian Government seem to be legislating towards such behaviour—it is better to engage with Russia than to boycott events if we are to bring about change?
I agree with my hon. Friend both about the importance of making our views clear and about the importance of engagement. Our diplomats who are stationed in Russia make a point of attending meetings of civil society organisations, including LGBT organisations, to demonstrate that we are standing up for the values in which we believe.
I agree with my hon. Friend both about the importance of making our views clear and about the importance of engagement. Our diplomats who are stationed in Russia make a point of attending meetings of civil society organisations, including LGBT organisations, to demonstrate that we are standing up for the values in which we believe.
I agree with my hon. Friend both about the importance of making our views clear and about the importance of engagement. Our diplomats who are stationed in Russia make a point of attending meetings of civil society organisations, including LGBT organisations, to demonstrate that we are standing up for the values in which we believe.
Does the Minister agree that, while these attacks are quite outrageous—as is the fact that the Russian Government seem to be legislating towards such behaviour—it is better to engage with Russia than to boycott events if we are to bring about change?