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1137341

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence: Aerospace Industry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	If she will make an assessment of the sustainability of the UK defence aerospace sector.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	911784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The UK is at the forefront of the defence aerospace industry. The Ministry of Defence is continuing to invest in capability development of aerospace platforms, which will protect highly skilled jobs for many years to come.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s Combat Air Strategy, launched at the 2018 Farnborough International Air Show, sets out a clear way forward for preserving national advantage and choice in how our future Combat Air capability is delivered.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 08/07/2019 16:31:42 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1566488

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2023
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ban conversion practices.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
	uin	122156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to protecting people from these practices.</p><p>We are carefully considering the responses to the public consultation on banning conversion practices which closed last year.</p><p>We will be publishing a draft bill to ban conversion practices for pre-legislative scrutiny in this parliamentary session. We hope to send it to a Joint Committee for scrutiny and will work with the Liaison Committee accordingly.</p><p>In the meantime, we have launched a support service open to all victims and those at risk of conversion practices regardless of their background or circumstances, backed by up to £360,000 over three years.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 122155 122157 122158 question first answered 18/01/2023 17:34:37 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1676628

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2023
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Gender Recognition Certificates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she had discussions with her counterpart in Spain before laying the Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories and Saving Provision) Order 2023 on the removal of that country from the list of approved countries and territories to qualify applicants for the overseas route to apply for gender recognition certificates.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	6024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2023 answer text <p>I refer back to my previous answer to UIN 5635 on 14th December.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 6007 6009 6011 6012 6013 6014 6015 6017 6018 6019 6020 6021 6022 6023 6025 6026 6029 6031 6033 question first answered 15/12/2023 14:07:38 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1651761

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2023
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	LGBT Advisory Panel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, for what reasons the Government disbanded the LGBT Advisory Panel.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
	uin	193274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>In 2018, the then government published the LGBT Action Plan which contained a broad range of commitments designed to improve the lives of people at home and abroad, and the way that public services work for them. Significant progress was made in delivering those commitments including taking action to tackle bullying in schools, and taking steps to ensure the safety of LGBT people at home and abroad.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This Government is determined to continue to take meaningful steps to advance opportunity for all LGBT people in the UK and beyond, including banning conversion practices. More details on this Government’s priorities will be shared in due course.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2019, the Government at the time appointed a 12 person LGBT Advisory Panel for a period of two years to advise on LGBT policies. In April 2021, that two year period came to an end and the Panel ceased to operate.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 193230 question first answered 18/07/2023 15:33:07 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1701001

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Equality Advisory and Support Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many enquiries the Equality Advisory and Support Service has responded to in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	21729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>We do not routinely collect this information. The member may wish to ask EASS for it directly. However, it may be of interest for the Member to note that the EASS receives around 3,000 calls per month and has a stringent Key Performance Indicator that requires operators to answer 85% of all calls within 30 seconds. That target is routinely met. In a recent customer satisfaction survey nearly 90% of respondents were ‘Satisfied’ or higher with the service that they received.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/04/2024 16:03:53 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1678486

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2023
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many equalities impact assessments were completed by each Department in the most recent year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	7395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>The number of equality impact assessments completed by each Department is not collected centrally.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Under the Public Sector Equality Duty (the Duty) all public authorities are required by law to ensure that they have due regard to certain equality considerations when carrying out their functions.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Departments are individually responsible for the monitoring of their own equality assessments and their compliance with the Duty. An ‘equality impact assessment’ (EIA) may be produced. However, this is not a legal requirement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 12/01/2024 14:23:55 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1701055

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Equality and Human Rights Commission: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many staff left the Equality and Human Rights Commission in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	21699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>As an executive non-departmental public body that is operationally independent, this is for the Equality and Human Rights Commission to respond. I have attached the response from the Interim Chief Executive below.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/04/2024 16:03:51 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew attachment 1 file name 2024-04-16 HC PQ 21699 Julian Knight EHRC Letter to Julian Knight MP (2).pdf title EHRC Letter
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1544962

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2022
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if he will publish an equalities impact assessment of the Government's policy on conversion therapy for transgender people.
	tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
	tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
	uin	94888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>Equality Ministers are fully aware of their responsibilities under the public sector equality duty to factor equality impacts into decision-making and do so on all policy including as regards conversion practices, where we are closely considering responses to the public consultation. Such assessments are not generally published.</p><p>Equality Hub Ministers and officials have engaged widely on the issue of conversion practices with victims, LGBT groups, healthcare professionals, faith groups, groups advocating for sex-based rights and parliamentarians, as well as other Government departments including the Department of Health and Social Care. This engagement has been a key part of developing proposals and we continue to work closely with stakeholders.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 94889 question first answered 30/11/2022 13:16:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1551980

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Transgender People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend Section 7 of the Equality Act 2010 in order to (a) replace the references to the term transsexual with a different term and (b) remove the requirement that a person covered by that Section shall be proposing to undergo, be undergoing or have undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning that person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	111703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is clear that we want people who are transgender to be able to live their lives as they wish. On a) we recognise that the term ‘transsexual’ used in the Equality Act 2010 is seen by many to be outdated. We understand those concerns and do not use the term in our policy or communications work. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) explain their approach by stating: “We recognise that some people consider this term outdated, so in this guidance we use the term ‘trans’ to refer to a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment”<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>.</p><p>In terms of the scope of that protected characteristic, as the EHRC sets out<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup>, the Equality Act definition is broad, does not require medical treatment and will include those who may “prefer to be described as a transperson, or transmale or transfemale or transgender”.</p><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> For example in their April 2022 guidance for providers of single sex spaces: <a href="http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/separate-and-single-sex-service-providers-guide-equality-act-sex-and-gender#language" target="_blank">www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/separate-and-single-sex-service-providers-guide-equality-act-sex-and-gender#language</a></p><p><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> <a href="https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/gender-reassignment-discrimination" target="_blank">www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/gender-reassignment-discrimination</a></p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 20/12/2022 16:17:57 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1697348

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2024
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Castes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to exclude caste as a protected characteristic from the Equality Act 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	902137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The government’s position remains as stated by the then Minister for Women and Equalities, the member for Portsmouth North, in her statement to Parliament on 23 July 2018.</p><p>We do not intend to make an order determining caste to be an aspect of ‘race’ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010.</p><p>We will repeal the statutory duty to make such an order once a suitable legislative vehicle becomes available.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 20/03/2024 14:04:00 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman