Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has held discussions about his legislative intentions on conversion therapy with representatives of (a) the NHS and (b) other signatories of the March 2022 Memorandum of Understanding on conversion therapy in the UK; if he will make it his policy to ban all forms of conversion therapy; and if he will make a statement.

We have had no specific discussions. The Government Equalities Office has legislative responsibility for the Government’s policy on conversion therapy.