Foreign Office is still paying Stonewall thousands of pounds months after Liz Truss urged ministries to pull out of diversity scheme
by Daniel Martin, Mailonline:
Liz Truss‘s department is still paying Stonewall to belong to its diversity scheme – months after she urged ministries to pull out.
The Foreign Office confirmed it remains a member of the LGBT+ charity’s ‘diversity champions programme’, which costs thousands of pounds a year.
Hundreds of companies and public bodies have joined the scheme to receive advice on how to create an inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff.
Earlier this year Miss Truss, then International Trade Secretary, told officials she believed government departments should withdraw from the scheme as it did not provide value for money.
But she has still not implemented the change at the Foreign Office – two months after becoming Foreign Secretary.
Stonewall’s chief executive Nancy Kelley claimed in May that ‘gender critical’ beliefs – that a person’s biological sex cannot be changed – were akin to anti-Semitism.
Despite this, she was invited to an event at the Foreign Office only last month.
The Stonewall scheme counts more than 200 government departments and public bodies among its 900 members – earning the charity millions of pounds a year.
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