Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to promote LGBTQ+ rights during the FIFA Men’s World Cup in Qatar.

Ministers and senior officials have raised the issues of LGBT+ visitors to the World Cup with the Qatari authorities at all levels in order to encourage equal treatment, the respect of individual rights and to identify what action the Qatari authorities were taking to match their commitment to a tournament where "everybody is welcome". The Foreign Secretary and Lord Ahmad discussed LGBT+ rights with the Qatari authorities during their visits to Qatar on 19 November and 10 December respectively.