It has not kept pace with evolving interpretations and is not sufficiently clear on when it means sex and when it means gender.
This will guarantee that single sex services and single sex spaces can be provided, for example in healthcare and sports settings, to ensure women and girls are protected.
In recent years, an increasing number of children have started questioning their gender, the consequences of which are still unknown.
This is why we will pass legislation to ensure schools must follow our guidance for teachers on how best to support gender questioning students in schools and colleges.
We are clear that no one in this country should be harmed or harassed for who they are.
That is why we are proud that the UK has one of the world’s strongest legislative frameworks to prevent and tackle discrimination and harassment against those with particular protected characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
Attempts at so-called ‘conversion therapy’ are abhorrent.
But legislation around conversion practices is a very complex issue, with existing criminal law already offering robust protections.
The challenges involved can be seen, for example, with the SNP re-consulting for views on their proposals in Scotland and Sweden recently concluding that they will not be pursuing a similar ban.
In light of the Cass Review Final Report, it is right that we take more time before reaching a final judgement on additional legislation in this area.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, not divisive identity politics.
We value a society that is inclusive no matter what sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion a person is.
Our United Kingdom is a multiethnic, multi-racial, multi-faith success story.
Our Inclusive Britain plan advances opportunity while tackling unfair ethnic disparities across education, employment, health and the justice system.
We are seeing some of the most entrenched disparities in our society narrowing, for example in our justice system and our police forces, we now have the highest proportion of ethnic minority officers, judges and magistrates since records began.
Our ambition is to make this country the most accessible place in the world for people with disabilities to live, work and thrive.
We are delivering on our Disability Action Plan to transform the everyday lives of people with disabilities.
We passed the British Sign Language Act to ensure all public services and information are accessible to Deaf people who use BSL.
The Down Syndrome Act will improve access to services and the quality of life of people with Down’s syndrome.
In the next Parliament we will improve support for people who have guide or assistance dogs
and explore bidding to host and deliver the 2031 Special Olympics World Summer Games.
We are proud of our record on delivering for LGBT people and will continue to do so.
We passed the Same Sex Marriage Act to give same-sex couples the opportunity to enjoy the institution of marriage.
We have delivered the largest national roll out of PrEP in Europe.
<< Our food and farming sectors generate over £120 billion for the UK economy every year.
In the last Parliament, we maintained the farming budget to support our food security.
In England, this has supported farmers with a range of options to choose what works best for them, from business advice to new equipment, soil and nutrient management and hedgerow planting.
Labour’s actions in Wales show that they will never be on the side of the farming community.
Their blueprint involves top-down targets, fundamentally denying farmers the flexibility they need to achieve environmental goals in ways that work for them and making their primary job of keeping the nation fed harder.
Conservatives will always be on the side of farmers.
Farmers will be able to spend every extra penny on grants to boost domestic food production on top of maintaining our approach to Environmental Land Management Schemes.
In England, nearly half of all farmers have now signed up to schemes, choosing what works best for their business to invest in food security and sustainable agriculture.
We will build on work to date to ensure our schemes work for all farmers, from tenants to the uplands and beyond.
alongside a new UK-wide £20 million Farming Innovation Fund.
The target will apply UK-wide alongside our UK Food Security Index, the first of its kind, helping us to determine where best to concentrate farming funds.
This will also feed into the development of the Land Use Framework.
while moving away from the reliance on seasonal migrant labour with a five-year visa tapered scheme,
alongside clear investment in automation and promoting agri-food careers and skills.
Always stand up for farmers when negotiating new trade deals.
We will always look for the right deal for farmers.
We will continue to support UK agri-food and drink attachés in our embassies abroad, pioneering new markets and new opportunities for our domestic food and drink industry.
We have taken back control of our waters post-Brexit and will continue to back our fishing sector to feed the nation , build long term sustainability, and grow coastal businesses from Shetland to Cornwall.
In 2024, we secured quotas worth over £970 million for UK fishermen.
We will go further to seek additional opportunities for our inshore fleet in the 2026 negotiations, and ensure inshore voices are better heard by their representative bodies.
The fund could be used to invest in harbour and fish market upgrades, provide new equipment and technology for fish processing or to support our growing aquaculture sector.
We will particularly concentrate funding on small and medium sized businesses and the inshore fishing fleet.
Conservatives are committed to nurturing a thriving rural economy.
Rural areas already contribute over £250 billion to the economy.
We will build on this, supporting jobs, growth and education in rural communities.
Over 80% of properties across the country can now access high-speed broadband, up from just 7% in 2019, with a record £714 million committed to boosting rural broadband coverage in 2024.