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Written Answers — Health: Departments: Equality (11 Jul 2007)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health at what cost to the public purse his Department's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Advisory Group commissioned the taking of (a) lesbian, gay and bisexual images and (b) transgender images as referred to in his Department's Single Equality Scheme 2007 to 2010, published on 8 June 2007; how he defines (i) lesbian, gay and bisexual images and...

Estimates 2006-07: Department of Health (3 Jul 2006)

Andrew Lansley: ...test. The issue is not whether the welfare of the child should be considered in any proposed legislation but whether we should preclude providing artificial reproductive technologies to lesbian or gay couples.

Estimates 2006-07: Department of Health (3 Jul 2006)

Andrew Lansley: .... Friend. We are, of course, talking about children, and about the circumstances in which couples, and in some cases single people, have access to help to become a parent. From my point of view, a gay couple who go through the process of surrogacy are capable, and in some circumstances entirely capable, of providing a long-term loving home for a child. If a lesbian couple or a single woman...

Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: Clause 41 — Child to live with adopters before application (16 May 2002)

Mr Andrew Lansley: ...has been listening to me carefully, as the essence of my argument is that, although I accept the case in respect of unmarried couples, we would create a whole new legal situation in relation to gay couples. It is not therefore directly comparable with the situation for unmarried couples, so we should not necessarily read across. On the European convention on human rights, the case of...

Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: Clause 41 — Child to live with adopters before application (16 May 2002)

Mr Andrew Lansley: ...of my hon. Friend the Member for North Dorset (Mr. Walter), whose view may be shared by other Opposition Members. Their view is that they would not wish children to be placed for adoption with a gay person in a gay relationship. That does happen—I am working on the basis of what happens now. On Second Reading, I noted—I probably did not refer to it—that last year's...