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HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillIt is a real pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson). I share many of his sentiments. He spoke very powerfully, particularly about his assistant’s…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillYes, and that is why I believe the Bill should go to Committee. Labour has been consistently clear on the subject of scope and definitions. We believe that there needs to be a ban…01 Mar 2024HANSARDInternational Women’s Day: Language in PoliticsI think it absolutely right, when any Member makes a mistake, as was the case in that instance, that they apologise. That was unacceptable, and it is right that the Member…29 Feb 2024HANSARDInternational Women’s Day: Language in PoliticsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. I have been very disappointed by that, as I would have been about any case of prejudiced or racist language that does not…29 Feb 2024HANSARDInternational Women’s Day: Language in PoliticsI commend the right hon. Member for Basingstoke (Dame Maria Miller) for securing this important debate. I thank everyone who has participated in it. The issue of language in…29 Feb 2024HANSARDWindrush Compensation SchemeThe Conservatives have failed the Windrush generation twice now: first by denying their rights as British citizens, and secondly by delaying their compensation, as we have just…07 Feb 2024HANSARDWindrush Compensation SchemeThere is no accountability for the failures being felt so acutely by so many people who, frankly, do not have much time left to see justice. The Windrush generation and their…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories and Saving Provision) Order 2023It is a pleasure to serve on the Committee with you in the chair, Mrs Murray. I am grateful to the Minister for setting out the draft order for the Committee. I welcome this…06 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories and Saving Provision) Order 2023This is an unwelcome break from precedent, because past changes to the list, including under a Conservative-led Government, were not introduced with the divisive rhetoric we heard…06 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories and Saving Provision) Order 2023I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that point. The question is why this change is being introduced after 13 years, given that there were changes to a number of other countries’…06 Feb 2024HANSARDGender RecognitionI thank the Minister for Women and Equalities for advance sight of her statement. I welcome the chance to respond to her on these important issues. Such opportunities are…06 Dec 2023HANSARDGender Recognitionrose—06 Dec 2023HANSARDConversion PracticesI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising those issues. However, they are distinct from a ban on the practice of conversion therapy. I will come back to the exact drafting…06 Dec 2023HANSARDConversion PracticesSorry, but I have said I will not to give others time. LGBT+ people need a Government that will not simply use complexity, which is common to all legislation, as an excuse for…06 Dec 2023HANSARDConversion PracticesI will push on to give others time. There are complexities but it is our job to protect the public from harm. Labour, like the BMA, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and…06 Dec 2023HANSARDConversion PracticesI am grateful to the hon. Member, but I will not take any more interventions—I am conscious that there are others who need to speak. The point about surgical and medical…06 Dec 2023HANSARDConversion PracticesI will continue for the moment, but the hon. Gentleman is welcome to intervene on me later if I have not answered his question. I asked for any evidence or statements from medical…06 Dec 2023HANSARDConversion PracticesI am grateful to the hon. and learned Lady for her intervention, but I have actually said that a number of times before. The interim Cass review is clear about an issue that has…06 Dec 2023HANSARDConversion PracticesIt is a pleasure to participate in this debate with you in the Chair, Ms Fovargue. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bury South (Christian Wakeford) for securing such an…06 Dec 2023HANSARDWomen and EqualitiesI would therefore counsel the Minister to advise his colleagues to stop briefing the press on these issues and get on with delivering, because there are failures when it comes to…07 Nov 2023