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Commons Chamber
LGBT+ History Month - Thu 13 Feb 2025
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Take, for example, conversion practices. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) On one night, I was out out with one of my gay best friends and my non-binary friend. - Speech Link
3: Tracy Gilbert (Lab - Edinburgh North and Leith) That he happened to be gay should not have mattered. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Lesbian Visibility Week - Thu 24 Apr 2025
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow and Gateshead East) acknowledging its importance in a Parliament that boasts the largest number of openly lesbian, bisexual and gay - Speech Link
2: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow and Gateshead East) Part of my brief is reporting on the ban on so-called conversion practices across Europe. - Speech Link
3: Jacob Collier (Lab - Burton and Uttoxeter) therapy ban, modernisation of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and making LGBT hate crime an aggravated - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) The Government are clear: conversion practices are abuse. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
LGBT Veterans: Etherton Review - Thu 12 Dec 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) He lost his job in the 1980s because he was gay. There is no compensation for him at the moment. - Speech Link
2: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) Ed was sacked from the Royal Navy for being gay in 1988 and founded the first legal challenge group in - Speech Link
3: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell)therapy, and underwent what at the time was described as a “medical examination”, but would today be - Speech Link
4: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) He told me:“Arrested for being gay, I was sexually assaulted by the Special Investigation Branch and - Speech Link
5: Alison Bennett (LD - Mid Sussex) Stephen was the last RAF officer to go to prison for being gay. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Gender Non-conforming Young People - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Did I, as a gay man, have any advice? - Speech Link
2: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) It is incoherent to put sexual orientation and gender identity under the same conversion therapy umbrella - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) Like me, she was a volunteer at the Lesbian and Gay Switchboard. - Speech Link
2: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) The Government cannot seem to decide whether or not to bring forward a Bill to ban conversion therapy - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Inspirational people like her have made my life, as a gay man, a lot easier, and I pay tribute to them - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conversion Practices (Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None therapy ban; and e-petition 300976, Make LGBT conversion therapy illegal in the UK.] - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) conversion therapy is a problem for the transgender community as well. - Speech Link
3: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) I am often asked why I fight for a ban on conversion therapy. - Speech Link
4: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) Conversion therapy causes lifelong harm. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Conversion therapy bans have been proposed or passed in Portugal, Norway, Tasmania in Australia, Switzerland - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Conversion therapy is abuse, and it is a vile and abhorrent practice. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) I want to make it clear that attempts at so-called conversion therapy are abhorrent. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Conversion Therapy Prohibition (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Bill [HL] - Fri 09 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) “offered” conversion therapy. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) “offered” conversion therapy. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) Another method is conversion therapy. - Speech Link
4: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) If one person suffers conversion therapy, that is one person too many. Conversion therapy must end. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) conversion therapy”—what are the safeguards against that? - Speech Link
6: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) opposed to conversion therapy. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 24 Jul 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) Banning conversion therapy is, for activists, a way of attacking biblically based Christianity. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) She is just one of many whose lives have been permanently scarred.The great risk of the conversion therapy - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Conversion Practices - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None therapy ban; e-petition 300976, Make LGBT conversion therapy illegal in the UK; Correspondence from - Speech Link
2: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) Conversion therapy doesn’t work and should never be thought of.”Ben, 34, is a gay man who also endured - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) LGB Alliance welcomes the fact that the UK Government plan to ban gay conversion therapy, but it is worried - Speech Link
4: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) measures to ban conversion therapy. - Speech Link