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Written Answers — Treasury: Financial Aid (15 Oct 2002)

Mr Paul Boateng: Government support for the farming industry, rural communities, black communities and gay communities takes a variety of forms and a full breakdown in the format requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However details on subsidies received by the farming sector are published in Agriculture in the UK 2001 (available in the Library of the House). In 2001–02 public...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (10 Feb 2000)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...and one thing is clear: the Bill is not about section 28 and the responsibilities of public bodies. Nor is it about codes of practice and equal opportunity in employment. It certainly is not about gay marriage and an attack on the family. It behoves no party on either side of the House to claim to be the party of the family and we are all agreed that families are a good thing. They contain...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (10 Feb 2000)

Mr Paul Boateng: .... Our abuse of trust provisions seek to ensure that we have in place a workable mechanism to prevent young people—be they men or women, the prey of predators male or female, straight or gay—from being abused. The hon. Member for Taunton (Jackie Ballard) has raised some of the teacher unions' legitimate concerns. We had to make a decision on how to cast that Bill. Of course, it...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (10 Feb 2000)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...to issues of sexuality. It was born out of the war, he said. Well, the hon. Gentleman should reflect on who it was who died in the gas chambers. It was the Jews, it was the gypsies and it was the gays. And he should remember, too, the ground in which intolerance and bigotry grew. Therefore, for those of us who look to the convention as a reminder of the importance of human rights, to...