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Commons Chamber
Lesbian Visibility Week - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) Sex Couples) Act 2013 was passed. - Speech Link
2: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) same-sex couples who need to access in vitro fertilisation. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Our initial priority is to remove the requirement for female same-sex couples to self-fund six rounds - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) We work with the Department for Business and Trade to ensure that the same advantages are available to - Speech Link
2: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) by this Government, and nowhere more so than in their failure to remove the financial burdens that same-sex - Speech Link
3: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) same-sex couples and passed the Turing law. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Women’s Health Strategy - Wed 17 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Health and Care Research—NIHR—challenge fund of its kind, we will provide £50 million to unite researchers - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Our movement at that time was a movement for lesbian, gay and bisexual rights; the rights of the same-sex - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Same-sex relationships were little acknowledged, and we knew very few other same-sex couples, so we were - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
IVF Provision - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) As for IVF for same-sex couples, we are still waiting for the Government to keep their promise to remove - Speech Link
2: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) same-sex couples in England, including removing the requirement to privately fund artificial insemination - Speech Link
3: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) artificial insemination, and nine in 10 ICBs in England still require same-sex couples to self-fund - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pride Month - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) relationships, and 10 years since the equal marriage Act—the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013—which - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) With the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, gay people were finally treated as equals, and the last - Speech Link
3: Ben Bradshaw (LAB - Exeter) We introduced the Gender Recognition Act 2004, civil partnerships, adoption for same-sex couples, tougher - Speech Link
4: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) , equalising the age of consent for same-sex couples, scrapping the Thatcher-era section 28 policy and - Speech Link
5: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) LGBT+ couples must fund 10 cycles of artificial insemination themselves before they can access NHS IVF - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 09 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) In Mid Essex from 1 April women will have access to IVF on the NHS for the first time. - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) That happens, and at the same time we have female sex workers murdered every week of the year who do - Speech Link
3: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) the same rights as men. - Speech Link
4: Dawn Butler (LAB - Brent Central) For example, for sex workers, working alone is okay, but working in pairs is illegal. - Speech Link
5: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) women’s healthcare needs.We will also level up IVF access to same-sex couples and across the board, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 24 Jan 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) We are improving and standardising access to in vitro fertilisation for same-sex couples around the country - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) health strategy is to explore mechanisms to publish national data on the provision and availability of IVF - Speech Link
3: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) Whether we are talking about young women who need support as they go through endometriosis or IVF treatment - Speech Link
4: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) We are concerned about the exact same issues. - Speech Link
5: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) to discuss with her how we ensure that Medway can adequately access that fund. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fertility Treatment and Employment Rights - Tue 01 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) important that we listen to such stories, act on them, and provide women and their partners—men or same-sex - Speech Link
2: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) We must recognise the need for same-sex couples to have that support, and the need for support to be - Speech Link
3: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) I am sure we all know couples who have gone through the IVF journey. - Speech Link
4: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) However, an increasing number of same-sex couples are undergoing treatment to start their own families - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Women’s Health Strategy for England - Thu 21 Jul 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None out how we will tackle the women’s health data gap to make sure that health data is broken down by sex - Speech Link
2: None So we will be focusing our health and wellbeing fund over the next three years on projects to support - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) There are plans in the strategy to remove barriers to IVF for lesbian couples, which we welcome. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) We recognise that some transgender people may experience some of the same issues—for example, transgender - Speech Link