Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when his Department's five year strategy for the Equal Rights Coalition will be (a) agreed with other members and (b) published.

The UK is committed to working with our international partners to promote and protect the rights of LGBT+ people. The UK and Argentina extended their tenure as Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) co-chairs by one year until June 2022 to compensate for the limitations imposed on many ERC governments during most of 2020 due to COVID 19. Succession planning remains an ERC Executive Committee priority.

The Five Year Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) Strategy was shared with ERC Member States on 29 April, to be operationalised at a virtual ERC conference on 6 and 7 July 2021, where considerations around publication will be agreed.