§ Baroness Gould of Potternewtonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What steps they are taking to follow through the Programme for Action agreed at the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing, and how they intend to monitor progress towards implementation.
§ The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Lord Henley)The Government are fully committed to implementing the Global Platform for Action in the UK. We have already announced an implementation plan which includes asking all government departments to take full account of the Platform for Action; asking non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for their views by 1 January 1996; and meetings to debrief NGOs. In addition, we will meet NGOs early in 1996 to review progress on implementation and we will produce an implementation progress report on the first anniversary of the World Conference. We will place a copy of this report in the Library once it has been published.