Minister accused of making ‘more excuses’ to delay LGBT conversion practices ban

The Government has faced claims of making “more excuses” to delay a ban on so-called LGBT conversion therapy as a backbench proposal faced a race against time to progress.

Equalities minister Maria Caulfield said the Government intends to bring forward draft legislation once a review examining gender identity services for children and young people is completed in the coming weeks.

MP Elliot Colburn (Carshalton and Wallington) argued there is “no reason” to wait for the Cass Review, telling the Commons: “It feels as if there’s more excuses as to why we need to delay this.”