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794172

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	If she will reinstate the role of Disability Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	902537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The roles and responsibilities given to Board members of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are matters for the Commission itself. The Government has no powers to reinstate the EHRC’s Disability Commissioner role.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/11/2017 17:44:24 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

751841

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, (a) how and (b) when the decision to abolish the role of disability commissioner was communicated to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Disability Advisory Committee.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	uin	4777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an independent public body and decisions about the roles and responsibilities of its Board members, and how these are communicated within the organisation, are matters for the Commission itself.</p><p>I have therefore asked the Commission’s Chief Executive Officer to write to my hon. Friend with the information requested. I will place a copy of the letter in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 4776 4778 question first answered 18/07/2017 16:40:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

800731

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	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	Employment: HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many cases of HIV-related workplace discrimination have been reported, in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	117352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>The Employment Tribunal Service case management system does not collect or hold the level of detail of information requested, which could only be obtained from the paper records of each tribunal office.</p><p> </p><p>People with HIV are automatically considered disabled for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 and afforded all the relevant protections under its provisions, which make it unlawful to discriminate against people because of a disability in matters of employment, education and the provision of goods and services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/12/2017 14:16:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

769760

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2017
	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	Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many recommendations from the Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion the Government has accepted since that group's foundation.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	107431
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Commons Reference Group consulted government on two recommendations from the <em>Good Parliament </em>report. The first was to support the permanent establishment of the Women and Equalities Select Committee. The Government accepted this recommendation and the committee was made permanent shortly after the 2017 general election.</p><p> </p><p>The second recommendation was to commence Section 106 of the Equality Act 2010, which would impose mandatory diversity reporting for candidates on political parties. The Government recently confirmed that it would not bring this into effect.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/10/2017 16:47:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

802193

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many times she has (a) met, (b) spoken to and (c) communicated with (i) directly with or (ii) through (A) officials, (B) Ministerial advisers and (B) other contacts, the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	117880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office and its Ministers are in regular contact with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on a range of issues to do with the running of the Commission.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 117881 117883 question first answered 11/12/2017 17:37:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

748638

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	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	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make it her policy to allow different sex couples to enter into civil partnerships.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	3096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government carried out a consultation on the future of civil partnerships in 2014. The review found that there was no clear consensus and, therefore, the Government did not change the Civil Partnership Act 2004.</p><p>The decision not to change the law was judicially reviewed and the Government won in the High Court last year. The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against the High Court judgment in February and confirmed that the Government’s approach is lawful.</p><p>We welcomed the Court’s ruling at the time and confirmed that we would carefully consider the judgment and its implications before deciding on our next steps. The claimants in this case have subsequently sought permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision. We are currently awaiting the Supreme Court’s ruling on whether to allow the appeal to proceed.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/07/2017 13:03:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

753018

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will place in the Library of both Houses records of communications that exist on the appointment of Lord Shinkwin to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from or to any (a) member Board of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, (b) employee of the Human Rights Commission and (c) member of the Disability Advisory Committee of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	uin	5603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p>I will be placing in the library of both Houses the letter of appointment that was sent to Lord Shinkwin on 21 April 2017 appointing him to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Board.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/07/2017 16:37:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

802197

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will publish communications relating or referring to (a) the position of Disability Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission and (b) Lord Shinkwin between (i) herself, (ii) Officials of her Department, (iii) Ministerial advisers, (iv) the Government Equalities Office, (v) the Equality and Human Rights Commission and (vi) David Isaac between (A) 20 March and 21 April 2017 and (B) since 21 April 2017; and if she will place copies in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	117884
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government Equality Office and its Ministers are in regular contact with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on a range of issues to do with the running of the Commission. These discussions and communications are not routinely published.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/12/2017 17:35:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

785039

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will review the management and funding of the Equality and Human Rights Commission after recent redundancies.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	111627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is allocated an overall annual budget, which is £19.3m in the current financial year. Funding for EHRC’s staffing is included within that budget and decisions on staffing requirements are matters for the EHRC as an independent public body. We intend to carry out a review of the EHRC in 2018 as part of the standard “tailored review” programme for public bodies, and governance and funding are among the issues which we expect this review to cover.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/11/2017 17:11:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

749504

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2017
	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	Marriage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to amend same-sex marriage legislation to allow couples to convert civil partnerships to marriage.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	3446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>We are proud that we legislated for the introduction of marriage for same sex couples.</p><p>It is already possible for same sex couples in a civil partnership to convert their civil partnership to a marriage in the parts of the United Kingdom where same sex marriage is legal.</p><p>There were 7,732 couples in England and Wales who chose to convert their existing civil partnership into a marriage between 10 December 2014 and 30 June 2015 (just over six months of data).</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/07/2017 13:06:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley