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Environment Bill
Wednesday 26th May 2021

(3 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kate Osborne Portrait Kate Osborne (Jarrow) (Lab)
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How will the Secretary of State ensure that the voices of survivors of so-called conversion therapy and the people who support them will be heard in the consultation on a Bill to outlaw all conversion therapies, which have no place in all settings and all LGBT+ statuses, regardless of whether someone is consenting or coerced?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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My hon. Friend the Minister for Equalities has already met survivors of conversion therapy, and we are determined that they should be closely involved in the consultation we are holding on the forthcoming legislation. I completely agree with the hon. Lady: it is an abhorrent practice that we need to stop in the United Kingdom.

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