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1056569

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Domestic Abuse: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to support women who have experienced domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
tabling member printed	Nigel Huddleston
uin	909067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>On 21 January we published a draft Domestic Abuse Bill, which includes a ground-breaking series of measures to promote awareness, support victims, tackle perpetrators and improve services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also published a package of non-legislative actions that will see further support for children affected by domestic abuse, the elderly, disabled, male and migrant victims and those in the LGBTQ community.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ending domestic abuse remains an absolute priority for this government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/02/2019 16:03:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston

1056570

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Family Planning: Clinics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent steps the Government has taken to ensure the safety of women using family planning clinics.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	909068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>No-one should feel harassed or be intimidated simply for exercising their legal right to healthcare advice and treatment. We recognise that anti-abortion protests outside clinics can leave patients distressed. The steps that the Government is taking to support women who are affected in this way are set out in the Written Ministerial Statement my Rt Hon Friend, the Home Secretary, issued on 13 September 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/02/2019 16:04:26 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1056571

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Sexual Harassment: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to tackle sexual harassment at work.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Helen Whately
uin	909070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government strongly condemns sexual harassment in the workplace, and is committed to seeing it end.</p><p> </p><p>We will consult this summer to ensure legal protections against workplace harassment are robust, and we are working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on a new code of practice to ensure that employers are clear on their responsibilities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/02/2019 16:04:58 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

1055048

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department plans to take with the Department for Health and Social Care to ensure that trans patients do not have to seek unaffordable private healthcare as a result of long waiting times in order to receive treatment and medication.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	217144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office liaised closely with the Department of Health and Social in developing the commitments set out the LGBT Action Plan. These include the appointment of a National Adviser, who will focus on reducing the health inequalities that LGBT people receive when accessing the NHS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are aware demand for gender identity services is growing at a significant rate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England increased investment in these services in 2016/17, from £26million to £32million, and this figure of £32million has been the overall financial investment in these services each subsequent financial year in-cluding the current year of 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Between July and October 2017 NHS England and NHS Scotland held separate but related public consultations on proposals for new service specifications that, if adopted, describe how specialised gender identity services for adults will be commissioned and delivered in the future.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Final versions of the service specifications will be used to inform a process of competitive procurement that will determine which organisations are best placed to provide specialist gender identity services. The process of procurement will be managed by NHS England, with the involvement of NHS Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 217145 question first answered 08/02/2019 14:21:39 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

1055049

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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 Dysphoria: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she plans to take to improve transition healthcare for people with gender dysphoria.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	217145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office liaised closely with the Department of Health and Social in developing the commitments set out the LGBT Action Plan. These include the appointment of a National Adviser, who will focus on reducing the health inequalities that LGBT people receive when accessing the NHS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are aware demand for gender identity services is growing at a significant rate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England increased investment in these services in 2016/17, from £26million to £32million, and this figure of £32million has been the overall financial investment in these services each subsequent financial year in-cluding the current year of 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Between July and October 2017 NHS England and NHS Scotland held separate but related public consultations on proposals for new service specifications that, if adopted, describe how specialised gender identity services for adults will be commissioned and delivered in the future.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Final versions of the service specifications will be used to inform a process of competitive procurement that will determine which organisations are best placed to provide specialist gender identity services. The process of procurement will be managed by NHS England, with the involvement of NHS Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 217144 question first answered 08/02/2019 14:21:39 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

1055156

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	EnAble Fund for Elected Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the EnAble Fund for Elected Office is available to (a) parliamentary candidates (i) seeking selection for the next General Election, (ii) standing in parliamentary by-elections; and if she will publish the Equality Impact Assessment conducted on the scope of that Fund.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	217059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The EnAble Fund for Elected Office is an interim fund primarily for the forthcoming local elections in May. It is available until March 2020 or until its total of £250,000 is exhausted, whichever is sooner.</p><p> </p><p>The fund is therefore timebound. No general election is scheduled for the time period of the fund. We have however committed to consider parliamentary by-elections on a case by case basis should they arise.</p><p>We will publish an impact equalities assessment on the fund in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 14:22:55 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1054574

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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 Act 2004
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the timetable is for the publication of the Government's response to the Gender Recognition Act consultation.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	216235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>From 3 July to 22 October 2018, the Government ran a public consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in order to make the gender recognition process less bureaucratic and intrusive for the people that use it.</p><p>We received over 100,000 responses to the consultation and we are now working to analyse these. We will publish the Government’s response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/02/2019 17:09:56 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

1050036

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Civil Partnerships: Heterosexuality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals on extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	213156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The government remains committed to extending civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples, and is supporting the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc.) Private Members Bill. We are considering with the Bill’s sponsors how best this could be used to extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/02/2019 17:47:16 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1050293

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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 Equalities Office: Trade Associations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which regulatory functions imposed by legislation for which her Department has responsibility are currently undertaken by trade associations; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	213181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) does not itself undertake any regulatory functions imposed by legislation. The GEO is responsible for the Equality Act 2006, which imposes regulatory functions on the Equality and Human Rights Commission. None of these functions are currently undertaken by trade associations.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/02/2019 17:48:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1047575

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Civil Partnerships: Heterosexuality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 18 January (HL Deb, col 453), when the details of their consultation exercise on civil partnerships will be announced.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL13068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Our consultation on civil partnerships will issue later this year. It will relate to issues concerning opposite-sex civil partnerships for intimate partners.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 07/02/2019 12:40:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden