Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to her oral evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee on 25 May 2021, HC 133, Qq 68, what progress she has made on the recruitment of a new LGBT advisory panel.

The Government is committed to promoting and realising equality for LGBT people at home and abroad. The Government’s team of Equality Ministers are leading on commitments such as banning so-called conversion therapy, digitising the gender recognition process and delivering Safe to Be Me: A Global Equality Conference, later this year. The Government is drawing on the services and advice of Lord Herbert of South Downs as the Special Envoy on LGBT rights and Chair of the Conference, Iain Anderson as LGBT Business Champion, as well as Dr Michael Brady as the National LGBT Health Adviser. Ministers and officials regularly engage with stakeholders on a range of issues and will continue to do so.