Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities)

Organisations: Government Equalities Office, Social Mobility Commission, Equality Hub, and Department for Business and Trade

Responsibilities

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) is responsible for:

• advancing the government’s wider priorities for LGBT equality, including:
  • improving LGBT safety
  • supporting LGBT people fleeing persecution
  • tackling LGBT homelessness
• preparing and progressing the Conversion Practices Bill through pre-legislative scrutiny and then through Parliament
• progressing regulations to enable opposite-sex couples to convert their marriage to a civil partnership
• sponsorship of the Social Mobility Commission, supporting work on geographic and socio-economic disparities
• overview of the overarching equalities legislative framework, including the Equality Act

Previous holders of this role

1. The Rt Hon Stuart Andrew MP

   2022 to 2024