AQW 6873/10

Mrs Dolores Kelly
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Upper Bann

Tabled Date: 19/05/2010
Answered On Date: 27/05/2010
Priority Written: Yes

Question:
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on the status of the Sexual Orientation Strategy.

Answer:

Considerable work has been done across government and public bodies to develop cross-departmental action plans to tackle identified inequalities and to deal with important problems such as homophobic crime. These have been kept under review, and there is a considerable body of recent research into the needs of the sector.

One of the outputs of the short-term funding package to the LGB sector, which has recently ended, was a needs analysis report. The needs analysis, which will help inform further work on the sexual orientation strategy, has yet to be submitted to OFMDFM.