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1379490

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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	Disability: Candidates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she plans to reintroduce a fund to help disabled people seek elected office.
tabling member constituency	Forest of Dean
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Harper
uin	76618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to see more disabled people become elected representatives.</p><p>Building on the experience of the Access to Elected Office fund and the EnAble fund, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will support a new scheme from April 2022 to support those seeking to become candidates and – as importantly – once they have been elected to public office.</p><p>Political parties have primary responsibility for supporting their own disabled candidates, in line with their duties under the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 22/11/2021 17:35:14 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper

1378661

registered interest
date	15/11/2021
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	Transphobia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to reduce transphobia in the (a) media, (b) NHS and (c) UK.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	75143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government is clear that transphobia is unacceptable and has no place in British society. We are working across Government to tackle transphobia, homophobia and biphobia. This action includes working with stakeholders to tackle transphobic hate crime, and we have committed to publishing a new Hate Crime Strategy later this year.</p><p>Also announced this week, the Department for Education has confirmed funding for five leading organisations, worth over £1 million in total, to support schools and colleges in championing tolerance and respect as part of their responsibility to tackle all forms of bullying.</p><p>On tackling transphobia in the media, the Government’s Online Safety Bill will deliver a ground-breaking new system of accountability which will require internet companies to protect users from online abuse, and will make it easier to report harmful activity. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will also be examining the current advertising regulatory framework to make sure it is equipped to tackle online harms.</p><p>Within the NHS, a range of activity is in place to ensure that transgender people receive appropriate support and do not face discrimination. This includes the provision of Gender Identity Clinics and training for staff. NHS England also runs the Rainbow Badges scheme which is an initiative that enables staff in participating Trusts to demonstrate to service users that they offer open, non-judgemental and inclusive care for patients and their families, who identify as LGBT.</p><p>Next year, we will be holding <em>Safe To Be Me: A Global Equality Conference</em>, which will bring together government representatives, businesses, civil society and international parliamentarians to address the safety of LGBT people at home and abroad.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/11/2021 12:10:36 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1378124

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
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 steps her Department is taking to bring forward legislative proposals to end conversion therapy.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Dr Kieran Mullan
uin	74013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government is currently consulting on our proposals to legislate for a ban on conversion therapy. The question is how, not whether, we will ban conversion therapy. The <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/banning-conversion-therapy" target="_blank">consultation</a> runs until Friday 10 December and I would encourage anyone with an interest to respond.</p><p>The consultation responses will be used to further refine the Government’s policy proposals on banning conversion therapy and inform the process of developing legislation. We will analyse the responses to the consultation and respond in the new year. We will prepare a Bill for Spring 2022, to be introduced as soon as Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 16/11/2021 10:57:03 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4860 label Biography information for Dr Kieran Mullan

1366803

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether their consultation on how to make coercive conversion therapies illegal is in line with the Cabinet Office Consultation Principles in that all consultations involving the voluntary and community sector should be of 12 weeks duration; and whether they will extend the six-week planned consultation.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL3760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>The consultation on banning conversion therapy opened on 29 October and will run until 10 December. The consultation follows the Cabinet Office consultation principles, which were updated in 2018 and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/consultation-principles-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/consultation-principles-guidance</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 16/11/2021 12:07:17 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1365342

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
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	LGBT+ People: Wales
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 Welsh Government on its LGBTQ+ Action Plan for Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	68447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2021 answer text <p>The Equality Hub is in regular contact with Welsh Government officials and has held discussions covering the LGBTQ+ action plan for Wales as well as wider LGBT policy, including most recently the proposals to ban conversion therapy in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/11/2021 10:34:53 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1365532

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
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	Government Equalities Office: Core Issues Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the decision was made to organise a Government Equalities Office meeting with Core Issues Trust, who made that decision; and who attended that meeting.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	68162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2021 answer text <p>The Equality Hub is engaging with a wide range of stakeholders who hold different views in relation to conversion therapy. The Core Issues Trust wrote to the Equality Hub asking a Minister to meet to discuss our efforts to ban conversion therapy, an invitation which was declined. Instead, Equality Hub officials met briefly with the group as part of their routine stakeholder engagement around the proposed ban.</p><p>The Government launched its consultation into how – not whether – to ban conversion therapy on Friday 29 October. This will close on Friday 10 December. I would encourage everyone with an interest in this area to submit a response.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/11/2021 10:36:12 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1365571

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to Question 56893 tabled on 28 September 2021, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 30 July 2021 on LGBT conversion therapy, reference ZA57247.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	68153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>I apologise for the delay in responding to the hon. Member's correspondence. The response was sent on 8 November 2021.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 56893 question first answered 08/11/2021 16:13:32 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1363503

registered interest
date	26/10/2021
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	Females: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent discussions her Department has had with the Ministry of Defence on ensuring women can access careers in the Armed Forces.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	63882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2021 answer text <p>Equality Hub Ministers have frequent discussions with Ministerial colleagues from across government on a range of equalities issues.</p><p>The Ministry of Defence aims to significantly improve the recruitment and retention of women in the Armed Forces with the ambition to achieve 30% inflow of women by 2030. To realise this goal, the single Services have taken a range of steps to improve the experience of women in the Armed Forces, as they continue to do for all serving personnel. This includes all roles being open to women, targeted programmes to increase the recruitment of women, introducing flexible service, flexible and parental leave, the provision of sanitary boxes, and reviewing women specific combat requirements.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 10/11/2021 14:00:14 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1363793

registered interest
date	26/10/2021
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish a cross-Government equality action plan; and what role (1) the Equality Hub, and (2) the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, will have in any of those plans.
tabling member printed	Lord Shinkwin
uin	HL3460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The Equality Hub is part of the Cabinet Office, and therefore its work is covered by the Cabinet Office’s wider Outcome Delivery Plan. All departments’ Outcome Delivery Plans for the current year were published on 15 July 2021. The Equality Hub’s work includes development and delivery of specific strategies across government, for example the National Disability Strategy.</p><p>Each department is responsible for the equality work relating to their portfolio. This will be reflected in their Outcome Delivery Plan, Equality Objectives, and other relevant strategies, and equality considerations will be factored into their wider work in line with the public sector equality duty.</p><p>The creation of the new Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities reflects the Government’s commitment to levelling up and will be instrumental in driving forward the agenda across government, ensuring we are geared up to deliver on our ambitions. This is a transformative agenda and the Department’s priority is to produce a White Paper which matches our ambition and which will drive change for years to come. The links between levelling up and equality work will be even stronger given the Minister of State for Equalities is now based in that Department.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 08/11/2021 12:13:05 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4557 label Biography information for Lord Shinkwin

1362937

registered interest
date	25/10/2021
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	Females: STEM Subjects
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent estimate the Government has made of the proportion of women in work who are employed in the STEM sector.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	62726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2021 answer text <p>It is difficult to give an accurate assessment of the proportion of women who are employed in the STEM sector as not all roles in the sector are STEM occupations. However, we want to ensure that women and girls can make informed choices about their career, including enabling more to work in STEM.</p><p>To enable more people into STEM sectors, the Government has introduced free courses through the National Skills Fund to enable adults to upskill and retrain.</p><p>In order to improve representation, we are encouraging more girls to take STEM subjects at school, college and university by rolling out several programmes and committing substantial funding to support STEM uptake.</p><p>In addition, we are improving careers advice in schools on routes into STEM careers, as well as sector specific action such as supporting the Tomorrow’s Engineers Code, managed by EngineeringUK.</p><p>Education and especially STEM is one of the key areas that the independent Gender Equality Advisory Council is looking at as part of our G7 Presidency and continues to be a key area for Government.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 29/10/2021 12:52:05 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon