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1182679

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2020
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much funding from the public purse the Equality and Human Rights Commission has received in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	25003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Funding received by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission in the last five years is set out in the table below;</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£23,542,000</p></td><td><p>£20,415,029</p></td><td><p>£19,345,000</p></td><td><p>£18,349,000</p></td><td><p>£17,431,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/03/2020 18:03:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1182675

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2020
	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	Candidates: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will implement Section 106 of the Equality Act 2010 on publishing diversity data of candidates and elected representatives.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	24999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>We will keep section 106 under review, as we do with other uncommenced provisions in the Equality Act 2010. The government can play a role in supporting political parties to take action, but ultimately it is for parties to ensure that they select a diverse range of candidates and they should lead the way in improving diverse representation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/03/2020 18:02:02 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1183668

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2020
	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: Disability
	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 (a) publish the names of organisations that lose employment tribunals for disability discrimination and (b) allocate (i) resources and (ii) funding to support those organisations in improving their understanding of (A) disability discrimination and (B) their disabled employees.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	27016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>We expect employers to comply with the law in their treatment of disabled employees. Employers who discriminate against such employees rightly run the risk of claims for disability discrimination against them being taken to employment tribunals, which have power to award unlimited damages (including compensation for injured feelings) in addition to any award made in relation to employment law claims (such as loss of earnings).</p><p>Employment tribunal judgments, including those involving disability discrimination, are publicly available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions</a>. Guidance for employers to help them avoid claims for disability discrimination against them are available from Acas and from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).</p><p>In 2019 the EHRC published two pieces of guidance; a guide to help employees including disabled staff challenge discrimination at work, and a guide to help employers understand their responsibilities to provide disabled staff with additional support and workplace adjustments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 27017 question first answered 17/03/2020 11:03:45 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1182328

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2020
	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
	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 implement section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the socio-economic duty.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	24226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Successive British Governments have not implemented the socio-economic duty for English and cross-border bodies, and the current Government has no plans to do so. Such a general duty has the potential to become a tick-box exercise complied with to minimise the risk of legal challenge rather than to promote real change in social mobility.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/03/2020 18:03:31 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1182677

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2020
	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: Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will reintroduce Section 124 of the Equality Act 2010 enabling tribunals to make wider recommendations to tackle discrimination in the workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	25001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Section 124 (3)(b) of the Equality Act 2010 was repealed in the Deregulation Act 2015. Following consultation in 2013, the Government decided that wider recommendations by tribunals, which were not mandatory on employers, did not serve any useful purpose, yet created a perception of burden and unfairness for business - the estimated cost of making wider recommendations to employers who did implement them was about £2000.</p><p /> <p>Tribunals already had and continue to have the power to make critical observations about an employer’s processes and procedures. We have no plans to reinstate Section 124(3)(b) of the Act.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/03/2020 18:02:38 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1182678

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2020
	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: Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will reintroduce section 138 of the Equality Act 2010 setting out the discrimination and equal pay questionnaire procedure for the collection of information by someone who thinks they may have been unlawfully discriminated against from the person or provider who is thought to be responsible for the unlawful treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	25002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Section 138 of the Equality Act 2010 was repealed in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. The government has no plans to reinstate these provisions. Employees can still put questions to their employer or former employer concerning a claim under the Act if they wish. A Court or Tribunal may consider any relevant questions and answers as part of the evidence of the case, and may draw inferences if questions are not answered. At the time of the repeal ACAS produced a good practice guide with advice on how to do this, which can be found here: <a href="https://archive.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4971" target="_blank">https://archive.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4971</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/03/2020 18:04:21 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1182676

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2020
	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	Harassment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will reintroduce section 40 of the Equality Act 2010 on third party harassment.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	25000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government has recently consulted on how best to strengthen and clarify the law on workplace third party harassment and will publish its response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/03/2020 18:02:13 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1183669

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2020
	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: Disability
	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 tackle organisations that discriminate against disabled employees.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	27017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>We expect employers to comply with the law in their treatment of disabled employees. Employers who discriminate against such employees rightly run the risk of claims for disability discrimination against them being taken to employment tribunals, which have power to award unlimited damages (including compensation for injured feelings) in addition to any award made in relation to employment law claims (such as loss of earnings).</p><p>Employment tribunal judgments, including those involving disability discrimination, are publicly available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions</a>. Guidance for employers to help them avoid claims for disability discrimination against them are available from Acas and from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).</p><p>In 2019 the EHRC published two pieces of guidance; a guide to help employees including disabled staff challenge discrimination at work, and a guide to help employers understand their responsibilities to provide disabled staff with additional support and workplace adjustments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 27016 question first answered 17/03/2020 11:03:45 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1183552

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2020
	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, what additional resources her Department plans to make available to the Equality and Human Rights Commission to help it perform its role as regulator for the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	26877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>As an independent public body, decisions on the allocation of resources within the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s overall budget are matters for the Commission. In the current financial year, the EHRC has an allocated budget of £17.7m and has revised its allocated funding for enforcement of these regulations using existing funds.</p><p>The Government Equalities Office monitors the volume of complaints about accessible websites made in the first instance to the Equality Advisory Support Service (EASS), and is satisfied that this remains well within the current budgets of both the EASS and the EHRC. This position will be kept under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/03/2020 14:38:11 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1357174

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2021
	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	Government Equalities Office: Departmental Responsibilities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the impact of her role as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on her ability to deliver her Department's Equalities agenda.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
	tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
	uin	52618
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2021 answer text <p>The priorities of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Equality Hub are closely aligned: both are working to promote the safety and empowerment of women and girls; share a commitment to advance LGBT equality through the Global LGBT Conference; are supporting our global leadership on disability rights; and collaborate across many other areas of work as we advance core freedoms and liberties across the world.</p><p>Whether it be banning the abhorrent practice of conversion therapy, ending violence against women and girls, or improving equality of opportunity in education here in the UK and internationally, joint working towards common goals strengthens our ability to deliver equality for all.</p><p>More broadly, having Ministers based across Government in the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for International Trade, and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will support our ambitions to build back fairer from COVID-19 and level up across the country.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/10/2021 13:23:48 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson