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Uganda: LGBT+ People

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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 171459, tabled on 22 March 2023

Question

Stewart Malcolm McDonald
Scottish National Party
Glasgow South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to his Ugandan counterpart on the anti-LGBTQ+ bill that would make homosexual acts punishable by death in that country.

Answer

Mr Andrew Mitchell
Conservative
Sutton Coldfield
Commons

Answered on

27 March 2023

I [Minister Mitchell] have expressed the UK's deep disappointment with the decision of the Parliament of Uganda on 21 March 2023 to pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The UK is alarmed by the increasing criminalization of LGBT+ people in Uganda. This Bill threatens minority rights and risks persecution and discrimination of all people across Uganda. Amendments to the Bill, including introduction of the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality', are very worrying. The UK Government is firmly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances and in every country.

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