AQO 44/16-21

Mrs Naomi Long
Alliance Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 02/06/2016
Answered On Date: 14/06/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on the Sexual Orientation Strategy.

Answer:

The good relations strategy, Together: Building a United Community, gives a commitment to publishing a Sexual Orientation strategy. The Stormont House Agreement and the Fresh Start document both state that the Together: Building a United Community will be implemented in full.

The Executive agreed a draft Programme for Government Framework 2016-21, which included 14 outcomes supported by 42 indicators for change. Included within the outcomes are references to ‘a more equal society’ and ‘a shared society that respects diversity’. These are very high level outcomes that we need to develop supporting actions to deliver against. Detailed work has started with the launch of the Framework for public consultation and I would welcome the views of everyone, including those from the LGB community, as part of that consultation process.