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800490

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date	04/12/2017
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Ethnic Groups: Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what comparative assessment she has made of the difference in the reported level of in-person bullying against BAME people and the reported level against non-BAME people.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	117111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 prohibits certain forms of conduct – including harassment – in employment and the provision of goods, services and public functions. Harassment is defined as unwanted conduct related to someone’s protected characteristics and which has the purpose or effect of violating their dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them. However, “bullying” is not a term used in the Act, and incidents of “bullying” are not recorded.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Advisory and Support Service, a Government-sponsored helpline that offers free advice and support to people who feel that they have been victims of unlawful discrimination, records and makes available statistics on all the customer contacts that it receives.</p><p> </p><p>Between 1 October 2016 - when the current service provider took over running the contract - and 28 February 2018, the Service recorded 1443 customer contacts concerning harassment across all the protected characteristics covered by the Act, 310 (21%) of which were related to race.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/04/2018 10:29:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

800670

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date	04/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to extend legal recognition to humanist marriages in order to enhance the diversity of choices for types of marriage ceremonies available to same-sex couples.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	117291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>Assessment of the potential merits of provision for non-religious belief marriages can be found in the consultation paper and response published by a previous Government in 2014 and available at justice.gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>Amending the existing law on marriage to make provision for legally valid humanist ceremonies would involve a range of issues for the Government to consider carefully. We have no plans to amend this legislation.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 117292 question first answered 16/01/2018 17:55:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

800671

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of extending legal recognition of marriages humanist ceremonies; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	117292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>Assessment of the potential merits of provision for non-religious belief marriages can be found in the consultation paper and response published by a previous Government in 2014 and available at justice.gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>Amending the existing law on marriage to make provision for legally valid humanist ceremonies would involve a range of issues for the Government to consider carefully. We have no plans to amend this legislation.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 117291 question first answered 16/01/2018 17:55:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

798561

registered interest
date	01/12/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Photographs: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will assess the effectiveness of legislation governing photographic consent.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	116955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Government recognises that the legislation governing photographic consent raises complex issues. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport are discussing this area of legislation with the Ministry of Justice and will write to the Rt Hon member following the outcome of these discussions. A copy of the letter will be placed in the House library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 115649 115651 question first answered 15/01/2018 13:58:40 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

797569

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether UK pensioners living in EU countries will continue to get their state pension uprated after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	116532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>We have now agreed with the EU that under reciprocal arrangements, the UK will continue to export an uprated UK State Pension and provide associated healthcare cover for UK nationals living in the EU who are covered by the Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p><br>This will include people who are of state pension age and those who are not yet at state pension age, once they start drawing their UK State Pension.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 08/01/2018 12:33:18 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris