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Rate Limitation (18 Feb 1988)

Ms Joan Ruddock: .... It does not explain that the NSPCC had access to other funds, that the amount of money that was being cut was a very small amount and that the amount being given, as the Minister suggests, to gays is actually money being given to advice centres — counselling centres—particularly for young people who are facing difficulties in adjusting to their own sexuality. In the age of...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Prohibition on Promoting Homosexuality by Teaching or by Publishing Material (15 Dec 1987)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...needs is the right of homosexual young people and adults to be recognised by society as they are — as human beings, with feelings, relationships and families. Recognition of lesbians and gay men is not a threat to those of us in the heterosexual majority. On the contrary, such is the all-persuasive and all-pervasive culture of heterosexuality in advertising and the media that it is...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Prohibition on Promoting Homosexuality by Teaching or by Publishing Material (15 Dec 1987)

Ms Joan Ruddock: I am grateful to the Minister. I trust that he recalls that I referred specifically to the need for effective gay and lesbian organisations to collaborate in the process, and to the consequent need for their funding to be continued. I am satisfied that amendment No. 48 is covered by those standing in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland. Finally, let me illustrate the problems...