§ Mr. StrangTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will bring forward legislation to protect lesbians and gay men from discrimination in employment, housing and the provision of other public and private services;
303W(2) what action the Government are taking to monitor discrimination against lesbians and gay men;
(3) what extra-legal steps the Government are taking to ameliorate discrimination against lesbians and gay men;
(4) what proposals he has to bring British law into line with best practice in other countries of the European Community with respect to the protection of male and female homosexuals;
(5) what research he has commissioned into discrimination against homosexuals;
(6) whether he has any plans to bring forward legislation to remedy discrimination against lesbians and gay men within the legal system;
(7) whether the Government have any plans to introduce legislation to outlaw incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation along the lines of the legislation being introduced by the Irish Government.
§ Mr. John Patten[holding answer 25 January 1990]: We have no plans to change the criminal law insofar as it affects homosexual relations or to introduce legislation to
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