Tim Farron – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Farron on 2016-06-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to promote LGBT rights in developing countries in this Parliament.

Sir Desmond Swayne

Through development programmes, DFID aims to support civil society, governments and others to build open economies and open societies in which citizens have freedom, dignity, choice and control over their lives, and institutions are accountable, inclusive and responsive.

DFID’s approach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights’ was published in February 2016 online.