Oral QuestionChurch Commissioners

“To ask the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, whether the Commissioners were consulted on recent guidance by the Church on civil partnerships; and if he will make a statement.”

Tabled: 3 February 2020Answered: 6 February 2020

Answering Minister

the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Equalities (Olivia Bailey)

Conversion practices are an abhorrent and insidious form of abuse, perpetrated by people who believe that being LGBT is not only wrong but can be forcibly changed. This Government will ban that abuse.