Question follow-through · 19682
Conversion Therapy: Prosecutions
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what forms of conduct that the Government intends to criminalise through the draft Conversion Practices Bill are not already capable of being prosecuted under existing law; and how many cases have been identif
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 14 Sept 2026 · 60 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what forms of conduct that the Government intends to criminalise through the draft Conversion Practices Bill are not already capable of being prosecuted under existing law; and how many cases have been identif
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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14 Sept 2026
Answer published
There are gaps in the current law which allow abusive conversion practices to happen lawfully and that is unacceptable. At the moment these abusive practices can go under the radar because people do not recognise abusive non-physical conversion practices ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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