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

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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

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Select Committee

LGB Alliance

CCI0058 - Community cohesion

Written Evidence Mar. 05 2025

Inquiry: Community cohesion
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: campaigning organisation, to ban any discussion on issues of sex and gender and how they relate to lesbian, gay

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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

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Arms Length Body Publication (Guidance)
NHS England

Jul. 24 2024

Source Page: Advancing mental health equalities in NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression services
Document: NHS therapies for anxiety and depression: LGBTQ+ positive practice guide (2024) (PDF)

Found: The survey also found that 2% of respondents had undergone conversion therapy*.5 *Conversion therapy

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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

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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

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