Joint Committee on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill open public evidence sessions

The Joint Committee on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill will hold its first public evidence sessions on Thursday 29 October.

The Committee has been appointed to consider and report on the Government's draft Conversion Practices Bill which sets out provisions to prevent and criminalise abusive and harmful conversion practices.

On Thursday the Committee will hear evidence from organisations representing different views on the Bill.

The evidence sessions will start at 12:15pm on Thursday 29 October in Committee Room 2 of the House of Lords. The full witness details are:

12:15pm:

• Stephen Kiely, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Stonewall
• Kai O'Doherty, Director of Policy and Research at Galop
• Professor Ilias Trispiotis, Member of Steering Group at Ban Conversion Practices Coalition

13:10pm

• Dennis Kavanagh, Director at Gay Men's Network
• Helen Joyce, Director of Advocacy at Sex Matters
• Dermot Kehoe, Vice Chair at LGB Alliance