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1645709

registered interest
date	19/06/2023
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	Disability: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June to Question 186960 on Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund, whether she has received representations from disability advocacy groups on re-establishing the (a) Access to Elected Office Fund and (b) the EnAble Fund.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	190176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>This Government has received representations from a number of individuals and groups regarding the need for greater support for disabled people wishing to stand for elected office. This includes representations related to the provision of funding to support with reasonable adjustments.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to increasing representation of disabled people in elected office. Earlier this year, the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work wrote to political parties represented in the House of Commons to seek support in ensuring that disabled candidates and people in elected office have the support they require.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has been clear that the responsibility for supporting disabled candidates sits with political parties and that the EnAble Fund was an interim measure to give parties time to put their own support in place.</p><p> </p><p>Building on the experience of the Access to Elected Office fund and the EnAble fund, DLUHC with the Local Government Association launched a new scheme in April 2022, to support those seeking to become candidates in local elections.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 27/06/2023 14:18:06 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1640548

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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	Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether it is her Department's policy to provide additional funding to support disabled candidates standing at the next General Election.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	186960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 stipulates that parties must make reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates and ensure, as far as possible, that they have the same access as non-disabled candidates. Ministers have made clear in letters to parties and Statements to the House that ultimately the responsibility sits with political parties.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 05/06/2023 15:45:27 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1338176

registered interest
date	18/06/2021
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: International Cooperation
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 on self-identification legislation for trans people with her counterparts in (a) Argentina as co-Chair of the Equal Rights Coalition, (b) Ireland, (c) Malta, (d) Belgium, (e) Portugal, (f) Denmark, and (g) Norway.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	18598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2021 answer text <p>The UK is committed to working with our international partners to promote and protect the rights of LGBT people.</p><p>We work closely with Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) member states, including Argentina as co-chairs, to share best practice on LGBT rights and plan to launch the Five Year Strategy and Implementation Plan to advance LGBT equality at an ERC conference on 6 and 7 July 2021. The Implementation Plan is based on international best practice and urges ERC member states to “provide legal gender recognition through an accessible, quick, and transparent administrative process and without abusive requirements (including sterilization, divorce, treatment or diagnostic) as a minimum standard.”</p><p>We also regularly share best practice on a range of issues with the Council of Europe’s LGBTI Focal Points Network (EFPN) member states.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 28/06/2021 16:11:02 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1316986

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
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, with reference to the announcement in the Queen's Speech that the Government plans to introduce a Bill to ban conversion therapy, when that draft Bill will be published; and when the consultation on that draft Bill will open.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	5268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, we will bring forward legislation to ban conversion therapy. We will also launch a consultation before details of the ban are finalised to hear from a wide range of voices on how best to protect people from conversion therapy while protecting the medical profession, defending freedom of speech and upholding religious freedom. We are considering all options for the scope of a ban and will be engaging the appropriate stakeholders to gather views. We will ensure the action we take to stop this practice is proportionate and effective, with no unintended consequences. We have also undertaken research to understand practices, experiences and impacts associated with conversion therapy and will publish this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 5269 5270 5271 question first answered 01/06/2021 15:43:35 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1316987

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
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 publish the findings of her Department's research into conversion therapy practices in the UK.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	5269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, we will bring forward legislation to ban conversion therapy. We will also launch a consultation before details of the ban are finalised to hear from a wide range of voices on how best to protect people from conversion therapy while protecting the medical profession, defending freedom of speech and upholding religious freedom. We are considering all options for the scope of a ban and will be engaging the appropriate stakeholders to gather views. We will ensure the action we take to stop this practice is proportionate and effective, with no unintended consequences. We have also undertaken research to understand practices, experiences and impacts associated with conversion therapy and will publish this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 5268 5270 5271 question first answered 01/06/2021 15:43:35 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1316988

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
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 she will make it her policy that there should be no exemption for religious practices when the draft Bill to ban conversion therapy is introduced.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	5270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, we will bring forward legislation to ban conversion therapy. We will also launch a consultation before details of the ban are finalised to hear from a wide range of voices on how best to protect people from conversion therapy while protecting the medical profession, defending freedom of speech and upholding religious freedom. We are considering all options for the scope of a ban and will be engaging the appropriate stakeholders to gather views. We will ensure the action we take to stop this practice is proportionate and effective, with no unintended consequences. We have also undertaken research to understand practices, experiences and impacts associated with conversion therapy and will publish this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 5268 5269 5271 question first answered 01/06/2021 15:43:35 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1316989

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
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 weighting her Department plans to give to responses from (a) survivors of conversion therapy and (b) organisations that support those survivors to the consultation on draft legislation to ban conversion therapy.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	5271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, we will bring forward legislation to ban conversion therapy. We will also launch a consultation before details of the ban are finalised to hear from a wide range of voices on how best to protect people from conversion therapy while protecting the medical profession, defending freedom of speech and upholding religious freedom. We are considering all options for the scope of a ban and will be engaging the appropriate stakeholders to gather views. We will ensure the action we take to stop this practice is proportionate and effective, with no unintended consequences. We have also undertaken research to understand practices, experiences and impacts associated with conversion therapy and will publish this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 5268 5269 5270 question first answered 01/06/2021 15:43:35 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1308016

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward amendments to the Equality Act 2010 to include caste as a protected characteristic.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	179578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>This Government completely opposes any discrimination because of a person’s origins, including any perceptions of their caste.</p><p>The <em>Tirkey v Chandhok</em> case in 2014 established that it is likely that anyone who believes that they have been discriminated against because of caste could bring a race discrimination claim under the existing ethnic origins limb of the race provisions in the Equality Act because of their descent.</p><p>The Government considers, having also taken into account over 16,000 responses to a 2017 consultation on this issue, that the <em>Tirkey </em>judgment serves as a welcome clarification of the existing protection under the Equality Act – helping to deter those inclined to treat others unfairly or unequally because of conceptions of caste.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 20/04/2021 16:45:32 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1272976

registered interest
date	30/12/2020
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+ People: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2020 to Questions 118113 and 118112, when the evaluation of the programme to support schools in preventing and addressing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying, reaching 2,250 schools in England will be completed and published.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	133220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>Since 2016, we have invested £4m to support schools in preventing and addressing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying. This programme concluded in March 2020 and continues to be evaluated, in order to increase our evidence base on what works in schools. We plan to publish the evaluation in due course.</p><p>The Government remains committed to helping teachers tackle bullying, including homophobic bullying, and are continuing to fund anti-bullying projects. The Department for Education announced £750k of funding in June 2020 for three charitable organisations, including a project for victims of hate-related bullying.</p><p>The Department for Education is also rolling out new inclusive statutory Relationships Education in all primary schools and Relationships and Sex Education in all secondary schools, so that children leave school prepared for life in modern, diverse, Britain.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 11/01/2021 17:27:12 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1253927

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
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+ People: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department has carried out an equality impact assessment on the potential effect on young people of the proposed removal of Government-funded projects that tackle LGBT+ bullying in schools.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	118112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2020 answer text <p>We want to ensure that all children, whoever they are, are kept safe in schools. Since 2016, we have invested £4m to support schools in preventing and addressing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying, reaching 2,250 schools in England. This programme concluded in March 2020 and we are currently evaluating it.</p><p>In our 2019 Manifesto, we made clear our commitment to continuing to help teachers tackle bullying, including homophobic bullying, and the Government is continuing to fund anti-bullying projects. The Department for Education announced £750k of funding in June for three charitable organisations, including a project for victims of hate-related bullying.</p><p>We consider the Public Sector Equality Duty in everything we do, including the continuing delivery of our anti-bullying work.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 118113 question first answered 24/11/2020 17:28:40 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper