Asked by: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Chapman of Darlington on 22 November 2024 (HL2411), what was the cost of procuring and erecting the bisexual flags; and which Minister authorised the decision to fly them.
Answered by Baroness Chapman of Darlington - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
In 2024, to mark Bisexual Awareness Week, the FCDO flew two bisexual flags within the grounds of its London headquarters. These flags were purchased in 2021 for £285.93 each to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the lifting of the ban on LGBT+ people serving in the Diplomatic Service. The then Permanent Under Secretary of the FCDO approved the flying of the flags on the internal courtyard flag poles.