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Written Question
Deputy Prime Minister: Departmental Responsibilities
Monday 14th October 2024

Asked by: Kemi Badenoch (Conservative - North West Essex)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Deputy Prime Minister's remit includes responsibility for ethics and integrity in government.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Each minister is responsible for their personal conduct, including upholding the highest standards of propriety and integrity.

Policy responsibility for propriety and ethics in government is held by the Cabinet Office.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Government are committed to protecting people from these practices. We are carefully considering the responses to the public consultation on banning conversion practices, which closed this year, and we will set out our next steps and the Government’s response in due course...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
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"This is a very serious issue, and one reason that it is taking so long is that we are being very considered. Many of the things that people asked for when we first started talking about conversion therapy practices are different from what we are looking at now, so the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
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"The hon. Lady from the SNP is, of course, talking absolute nonsense. Government Members are legislators and what we are going to do is bring a robust Bill into law, not one that will be helpful for her to send her tweets. This is about looking after vulnerable people and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
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"My hon. Friend asks a good question. I do understand the anxiety. One of the things that I am trying to do is take a lot of the heat out of the debate. Questions such as that from the hon. Member for Livingston (Hannah Bardell), which seek to inflame anxiety …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
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"I agree...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
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"It is quite clear that the hon. Lady did not hear any of the answers that I have given, because she has asked something that I have answered multiple times. I refer her to the answers I gave to all those hon. Members...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
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"The Equality and Human Rights Commission is key to the advancement of equality in this country, which is why we welcome the United Nations’ recent reaccreditation of it as an “A status” national human rights institution. To support Baroness Falkner and her board, I will shortly appoint new commissioners and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
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"The hon. Lady may not be aware of the extensive, 18-month piece of work that I produced on covid disparities. Some of the things that she mentioned were picked up in that report and the recommendations. One was about the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and that work is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
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"My hon. Friend raises an extremely important point, and I agree with her. Protecting women and girls and preventing children from accessing harmful content, such as online pornography, is a priority for the Government. The Online Safety Bill will introduce new protections for women and girls online. Under the Bill, …..."
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