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Commons Chamber
Veterans Update - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) the unacceptable hurt caused to LGBT members of our nation’s armed forces by the 1967 to 2000 ban on homosexuality - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) Every decision that is taken will be scrutinised, and, moreover, councillors who have strong convictions - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) Act 1988, which, alongside the notorious clause 28 prohibiting local authorities from “promotion of homosexuality - Speech Link
3: Imran Hussain (LAB - Bradford East) It forces public bodies and civic society to kneel, against their own moral convictions, to the Secretary - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Relationships and Sexuality Education (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Wed 28 Jun 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) It revealed that some schools are teaching children that homosexuality is wrong.In England, Scotland - Speech Link
2: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions - Speech Link
3: Lord Morrow (DUP - Life peer) parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions - Speech Link
5: None This statement exposes the total lack of concern for people who hold deep convictions of faith. - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Home Office

Jun. 13 2023

Source Page: More historic convictions for homosexuality to be wiped
Document: More historic convictions for homosexuality to be wiped (webpage)

Found: More historic convictions for homosexuality to be wiped


Westminster Hall
Legislative Definition of Sex - Mon 12 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) not relevant to sexual attraction.In recent years, Stonewall has quietly modified its definition of homosexuality - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) context of a postmodern society that thinks that it can get away with dictating to those with universal convictions - Speech Link


Select Committee
Rights Lab, University of Nottingham
HUM0051 - Human Trafficking

Written Evidence Jun. 08 2023

Inquiry: Human Trafficking
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)

Found: often ashamed to acknowledge their exploitation.29 This is particularly so in cultures where sex and homosexuality


Parliamentary Research
General debate on Pride Month - CDP-2023-0128
Jun. 08 2023

Found: the G overnment established an independent review to examine the effect that the pre -2000 ban on homosexuality


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration - Mon 05 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) Act 2022 in June last year, Immigration Enforcement has doubled the number of arrests, charges and convictions - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) virulently and appallingly homophobic legislation, which outlaws not only homosexual sex, but promoting homosexuality - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) know that Uganda has introduced a law that brings in the death penalty for what it terms “aggravated homosexuality - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
Turkey under Erdoğan: recent developments and the 2023 elections - CBP-9806
May. 26 2023

Found: However, the convictions were later overturned by the constitutional court.


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
LGBT+ History Month - Tue 28 Feb 2023

Mentions:
1: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) been historically convicted as a result of same-sex activity and put in place a system whereby such convictions - Speech Link
2: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) and Disregards) (Scotland) Act 2018, which allowed for gay people to be pardoned for their historical convictions - Speech Link