<p>I raised LGBT rights with Deputy Foreign Minister Przydacz when I visited Warsaw on 8 October. Our Embassy in Warsaw works actively on this agenda with both the Polish government and civil society, in close cooperation with our diplomatic partners.</p><p>We are closely monitoring developments following a ruling on 22 October by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal that laws permitting abortion in most cases are unconstitutional and the protests across Poland that this has prompted.</p><p>Our Embassy in Warsaw is active on the gender equality agenda and in September ran a workshop for British and Polish NGOs engaged in promoting women’s rights.</p><p> </p>