Results 1-10 of 10 for gay speaker:Lynne Featherstone

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: Schedule 3 (18 Jun 2009)

Lynne Featherstone: ...whether she feels the commission has a very good point in introducing a legitimate aim test, because, as my hon. Friend helpfully said, this is where we were not that  long ago in relation to gay men and lesbians in the armed forces, and that now seems like something from the distant past. Perhaps this move forward—the introduction of the legitimate aim test—will also take...

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: Clause 26 (18 Jun 2009)

Lynne Featherstone: ...and services provisions. Our amendment 156 would put that protection right back. I want to explore whether the Minister really has no evidence whatsoever, even on the hypothetical example of a gay bar or club excluding those who are members of a civil partnership because it does not want to admit couples. The amendment is intended to probe the Minister’s thinking, to find out why the...

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: Clause 24 (18 Jun 2009)

Lynne Featherstone: ...so far as to bring into play factors that did not exist before, it is important that we get it right. That extends to a whole range of issues. There might be people who do not wish to police a gay march, or firemen who will not attend certain incidents. On the execution of public duty, it is important that we make it clear here and now that carrying out public services cannot be a matter...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Lynne Featherstone: ...person from an ethnic minority is 15.5 per cent. less able to find work. Sixty-two per cent. of over-50s believe they have been turned down for a job because of their age, and six in 10 lesbian or gay schoolchildren experience homophobic bullying. Will the Bill cure those horrific statistics? That must be the measure of how far it can go. The simplification and unification of our equality...

Orders of the Day: Schedule 26 — Hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation (6 May 2008)

Lynne Featherstone: Does the hon. Gentleman not see that if we agreed to the Lords amendment, we would have to explain to gay people why they seem to deserve less protection than religious groups?

Written Answers — Health: Blood: Donors (7 Mar 2008)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what legal advice his Department has received on the compatibility of the ban on gay men giving blood with anti-discrimination legislation; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Health: Blood: Donors (3 Mar 2008)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the number of blood donations which would be made each year by gay men if they were not banned from giving blood.

Written Answers — Treasury: Census: Sexuality (3 Mar 2008)

Lynne Featherstone: ...orientation on the 2011 census; and if he will make a statement; (2) what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the number of UK residents who consider themselves to be (a) gay male, (b) bisexual male, (c) bisexual female and (d) transgender; and what methodology the Office uses to make such estimates.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Young People: Disadvantaged (6 Feb 2008)

Lynne Featherstone: ...of State for Children, Schools and Families what expenditure his Department has incurred in countering social exclusion among young people (a) who have a disability, (b) who are lesbian, gay and bisexual, (c) from minority ethnic groups and (d) from rural areas; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Pupil Behaviour Programmes (30 Jun 2005)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what arrangements her Department has made to give professional training on issues facing gay and lesbian pupils to those delivering the programme for improving pupil behaviour.