Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with (a) Ministers and (b) officials in Northern Ireland on legislation to ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy; and whether she is taking steps to align such legislation for (i) England and Wales and (ii) Northern Ireland.

The Government has been liaising with territorial offices and the devolved administrations including the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive on this important issue.

Officials will continue to work with their counterparts across the devolved administrations to discuss the UK Government’s approach to protecting everyone in England and Wales from conversion therapy practices.