| Heading: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Dismissal |
| Question ID: |
1786632 |
| UIN: |
HL5959 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4159 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to determine the number and identity of people who were dismissed from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as a result of the ban on homosexuality for serving officers in the Diploma |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
3972 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
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| Answering Member handle: |
JennyChapman
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JennyChapman
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| Answer text: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials have continued looking into this and I am eager to bring this to a resolution further to the apology for the ban from Sir Philip Barton (then Permanent Under-Secretary) in 2021. We continue to ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |