Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisations (a) were invited to and (b) attended roundtable discussions with him regarding conversion therapy in early March or late April 2014.
The Department invited the following organisations to a round table event to discuss gay conversion therapy on 2 April 2014:
Association of Christian Counsellors
British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
British Psychoanalytic Council
British Psychological Society
Department of Communities and Local Government
General Medical Council
Royal College of General Practitioners
Health and Care Professions Council
National Counselling Society
NHS England
PACE
Pink Therapy
Relate
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Stonewall
UK Council for Psychotherapy
The following organisations were also invited but were unable to attend.
Inter Faith Network
Professional Standards Authority