Results 1-5 of 5 for gay speaker:Mrs Barbara Roche

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (17 Mar 2005)

Mrs Barbara Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Department plans to undertake further research on the situation in the countries of origin of lesbian and gay people making asylum claims.

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (26 Jan 2005)

Mrs Barbara Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases lesbian and gay applicants have been refused asylum in the last five years on the grounds that they will not be persecuted if they return to their home countries and hide their sexuality.

Orders of the Day — Civil Partnership Bill [Lords] (12 Oct 2004)

Mrs Barbara Roche: ...would be outraged by such behaviour, but the practice is not outlawed. People cannot be discriminated against at work, from nine to five or whatever hours they work, on the grounds that they are gay, lesbian or bisexual. After five o'clock, however, if they go to the pub with their friends they could be refused a drink. Until very recently, a well-known holiday company, Sandals, which...

Debate on the Address — [First Day] (26 Nov 2003)

Mrs Barbara Roche: ...civil partnerships for same-sex couples—a proposal that I strongly advocated in government. It is now almost a year since I said that there were powerful reasons for civil registration. Many gay and lesbian couples have lived together for years as families and supported and looked after each other in sickness and in health, but have been affected at difficult moments of their lives,...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Sefton Council (21 Jan 2003)

Mrs Barbara Roche: ...Team; support for the North Sefton Community Development Project; the mapping of the particular needs of groups who have historically been marginalised including black and racial minorities, lesbian, gay and bisexual, faith communities and the disabled community.