PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Developing Countries: LGBT+ People (15 June 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to promote LGBT rights in developing countries in this Parliament.
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
Through development programmes, DFID aims to support civil society, governments and others to build open economies and open societies in which citizens have freedom, dignity, choice and control over their lives, and institutions are accountable, inclusive and responsive.
DFID’s approach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights’ was published in February 2016 online.
Answered by:
Sir Desmond Swayne (Conservative)
28 June 2016
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