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(2) what action the Government are taking to monitor discrimination against lesbians and gay men;
(3) what extra-legal steps the Government are taking to ameliorate discrimination against lesbians and gay men;
(4) what proposals he has to bring British law into line with best practice in other countries of the European Community with respect to the protection of male and female homosexuals;
(5) what research he has commissioned into discrimina- tion against homosexuals;
(6) whether he has any plans to bring forward legislation to remedy discrimination against lesbians and gay men within the legal system;
(7) whether the Government have any plans to introduce legislation to outlaw incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation along the lines of the legislation being introduced by the Irish Government.
Mr. John Patten (holding answer 25 January 1990]: We have no plans to change the criminal law insofar as it affects homosexual relations or to introduce legislation to
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prohibit differences in treatment on the grounds of homosexuality. I shall write to the hon. Member about the other matters he has raised.
Mr. Strang: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in each of the years 1988 and 1989, how many men were given custodial sentences in the United Kingdom for consenting homosexual acts with males between the ages of 16 and 21 years; and what were the durations of those sentences in each individual case.
Mr. John Patten [holding answer 25 January 1990]: Information for 1989 will not be available until autumn 1990.
In England and Wales in 1988, 10 males of, or over, 21 were sentenced to immediate imprisonment for buggery or attempted buggery of a male of, or over, 16 but under 21, with his consent. Thirteen males of, or over, the age of 21 were sentenced to immediate imprisonment for an act of gross indecency with a male under the age of 21. The durations of the sentences imposed are given in the table below.
Similar information is not readily available for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Males aged 21 and over sentenced to immediate custody for selected sexual offences with other males aged between 16 and 21 by sentence
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Buggery
and under
over 4 months up
to 6 months
over 6 months up to 1 year
Length of sentence over 1 year
up to 18 months
over 18 months up to 2 years
over 2 years up to 3 years
over 3 years up to 4 years
over 4
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Attempted Hagery
Action Taken
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2
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Indecency between males
Emergency Planning
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the local authorities that have a statutory obligation to undertake peacetime emergency planning of major industrial sites;
(2) if he will list the major industrial sites by location where local authorities have a statutory obligation to undertake peacetime emergency planning.
Mr. Nicholls: I have been asked to reply.
This information is not collected centrally in this form and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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Mr. McAvoy: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the ambassador of the United States of America regarding the forthcoming elections in Nicaragua; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maude: None. We are continuing to monitor the election closely and we await the report of our official observer, Dr. David Browning. Like others, including ONUVEN and the OAS observers, we have been concerned by reports of harassment of the opposition, of misuse of state resources by the Sandinista Front and of continuing inequality of access to the media and to funding. In particular, there was a long delay in releasing
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the $1.5 million which the National Endowment for Democracy paid into the Central bank for UNO's use in, December.
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Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will pay an official visit to the Indian sub-continent.
Mr. Maude: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs looks forward to visiting the Indian sub-continent but has no specific plans to do so at present.
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162. Mr. William O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he intends to amend the proposals for allowing the number of people from Hong Kong into the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maude: No.
Hong Kong
Mr. Rowlands: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many officials there are in the present Hong Kong administration at the levels which would be excepted from holding office under the terms of article 74 of the Joint Declaration.
Mr. Maude [holding answer 31 January 1990]: Exclusion from office after 1997 of specific individuals
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