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date	23/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what plans she has to continue to consult with trans and non-binary people on reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	182780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>From 3 July to 22 October the GEO received responses from a range of individuals and organisations as part of the public consultation on the Gender Recognition Act 2004. We asked how we might reform the Act to make it less bureaucratic and intrusive to change legal gender and we received many responses from trans and non-binary people.</p><p>The GEO met over 100 organisations in the run up to, and during this public consultation. We are now preparing to analyse the written submissions and evidence collected so far.</p><p>We are aware there are a range of views on reform and that this is a complex issue that we want to get right. That is why we will continue to meet with stakeholders as we develop the Government’s response.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 31/10/2018 16:07:33 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

993775

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date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Transphobia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle transphobic hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	182781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p><br>On 16 October 2018 the Government published Action Against Hate: the Government’s plan for tackling hate crime – two years on.</p><p>The Action Plan includes a number of commitments addressing all forms of hate crime, including a review of hate crime legislation by the Law Commission, projects to tackle prejudice, and an upcoming public awareness campaign to address the issue.</p><p>Specific commitments addressing transphobic hate crime include: the Crown Prosecution Service working with partners to improve the recording and monitoring of equalities data for LGBT victims of hate crime and reviewing and refreshing its LGBT Hate Crime Schools Pack; further Government Equalities Office funding for anti-bullying interventions in schools from March 2019 to March 2020; new guidance for Door Supervisors to increase their awareness of transgender hate crimes; and continued engagement with LBGT stakeholders informed by the findings from Government’s LGBT survey (published this summer) and the ideas generated at Galop’s anti-LGBT hate crime roundtable in July 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 31/10/2018 16:56:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion