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Conversion Therapy

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Question for Women and Equalities

UIN 156303, tabled on 1 March 2023

Question

Alicia Kearns
Conservative
Rutland and Melton
Commons

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the Government will begin pre-legislative scrutiny for the proposed ban on conversion therapy.

Answer

Stuart Andrew
Conservative
Pudsey
Commons

Answered on

6 March 2023

The Government will publish a draft Bill setting out our approach to banning conversion practices (also known as ‘conversion therapy’) which will go for pre-legislative scrutiny by joint committee in this parliamentary session.

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Women and Equalities
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