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1405290

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date	21/01/2022
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, what discussions she has had with the (a) Scottish Government and (b) Northern Ireland Executive to ensure that legislation banning sexual orientation and gender identity conversion therapy will provide the same level of protections for all LGBT+ people in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	109196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government has been liaising with Territorial Offices and the devolved administrations including the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive on this important issue. It is positive to note that developments in all four parts of the UK are such that there is work underway, at different stages, to end conversion practices often known as conversion therapy.</p><p>Officials will continue to work with their counterparts to discuss the UK Government’s proposals for England and Wales and share advice and progress on the approach to banning conversion therapy practices. We will share responses to our current public consultation relating to Scotland and Northern Ireland with relevant officials and we look forward to receiving further details of the Scottish Expert Advisory Group’s findings once they are developed. We have also provided the Scottish Parliament with written evidence on our plans to ban conversion therapy.</p><p>We are engaging with a wide range of international jurisdictions including Canada, France, New Zealand and Malta to understand the approaches they have taken or are developing to ban conversion therapy and to share our own developments too.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 109354 question first answered 26/01/2022 14:24:03 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1405330

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
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: Canada
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policy on legal consent of the policies of the recently enacted Canadian legislation on sexual orientation and gender identity conversion therapy in Canada.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	109354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government has been liaising with Territorial Offices and the devolved administrations including the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive on this important issue. It is positive to note that developments in all four parts of the UK are such that there is work underway, at different stages, to end conversion practices often known as conversion therapy.</p><p>Officials will continue to work with their counterparts to discuss the UK Government’s proposals for England and Wales and share advice and progress on the approach to banning conversion therapy practices. We will share responses to our current public consultation relating to Scotland and Northern Ireland with relevant officials and we look forward to receiving further details of the Scottish Expert Advisory Group’s findings once they are developed. We have also provided the Scottish Parliament with written evidence on our plans to ban conversion therapy.</p><p>We are engaging with a wide range of international jurisdictions including Canada, France, New Zealand and Malta to understand the approaches they have taken or are developing to ban conversion therapy and to share our own developments too.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 109196 question first answered 26/01/2022 14:24:03 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1404961

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
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: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recently enacted legislation to ban sexual orientation and gender identity conversion therapy in France and the exclusion of a provision to allow informed consent in that legislation.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	108509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>Our proposals to ban conversion practices often known as conversion therapy are robust and comparable to other bans in place, or currently under development, around the world.</p><p>We are engaging with a wide range of international jurisdictions including France, Canada, New Zealand and Malta and will continue to work with a wide range of domestic stakeholders as our policy develops.</p><p>The existing criminal law is clear that a person cannot consent to serious harm and we do not propose to change this. We are working closely with colleagues in the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care to ensure that the proposals will complement existing laws, including the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, and that they will not interfere with existing professional obligations and regulatory frameworks.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 108510 108511 question first answered 25/01/2022 16:58:11 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1404962

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
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, what discussions her Department has had with the Home Office on assessing the potential impact of introducing consent as a defence for abuse in a conversion therapy ban on other areas of legislation relating to abuse including the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	108510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>Our proposals to ban conversion practices often known as conversion therapy are robust and comparable to other bans in place, or currently under development, around the world.</p><p>We are engaging with a wide range of international jurisdictions including France, Canada, New Zealand and Malta and will continue to work with a wide range of domestic stakeholders as our policy develops.</p><p>The existing criminal law is clear that a person cannot consent to serious harm and we do not propose to change this. We are working closely with colleagues in the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care to ensure that the proposals will complement existing laws, including the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, and that they will not interfere with existing professional obligations and regulatory frameworks.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 108509 108511 question first answered 25/01/2022 16:58:11 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1404963

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
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, what discussions her Department has had with the Department for Health and Social Care on assessing the potential impact of introducing consent for talking conversion therapy on the regulation of other psychologically harmful treatments.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	108511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>Our proposals to ban conversion practices often known as conversion therapy are robust and comparable to other bans in place, or currently under development, around the world.</p><p>We are engaging with a wide range of international jurisdictions including France, Canada, New Zealand and Malta and will continue to work with a wide range of domestic stakeholders as our policy develops.</p><p>The existing criminal law is clear that a person cannot consent to serious harm and we do not propose to change this. We are working closely with colleagues in the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care to ensure that the proposals will complement existing laws, including the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, and that they will not interfere with existing professional obligations and regulatory frameworks.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 108509 108510 question first answered 25/01/2022 16:58:11 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1402144

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
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, what progress her Department has made on its extended consultation on banning conversion therapy.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	905026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government extended the consultation period to the end of Friday 4 February 2022 to allow a further opportunity to input for those who are yet to respond and to take account of the Christmas and New Year break. The consultation responses will be used to further refine the Government’s policy proposals and inform the process of developing legislation.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 12/01/2022 16:11:23 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith