Oral QuestionWomen and Equalities

What steps she is taking to ban conversion practices.

Tabled: 18 June 2026Answered: 24 June 2026

Asked by

Ms Julie Minns

LabourCarlisle

Answering Minister

the Minister for Women and Equalities

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.