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	registered interest
	date	20/04/2023
	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	Artificial Intelligence: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Whether she is taking steps to help ensure that the use of artificial intelligence systems does not increase the risk of discrimination against people with protected characteristics.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	904649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>We are committed to harnessing the huge potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve people’s lives. That’s why we’re making sure British values, rules and know-how are at the heart of safe AI that will benefit us all.</p><p>Our AI White Paper set out that:</p><ul><li>all uses of AI in the UK must comply with the Equality Act;</li><li>regulators should look to key principles such as fairness, accountability, contestability and redress when making sure that the use of AI is safe.</li></ul><p>I am also continuing to drive implementation of the Inclusive Britain Action Plan’s commitments to guard against bias in AI.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 26/04/2023 16:53:13 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1245335

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2020
	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	Disability: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps the Government is taking to help protect disabled people from the effects of the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	907864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2020 answer text <p>We are ensuring that disabled people continue to have access to disability benefits and other financial support; the food, medicines and essential goods that they need; as well as accessible communications and updated guidance.</p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions are helping disabled people stay in work and enter work through a range of programmes, including Access to Work and Disability Confident, the Work and Health Programme, and the Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 21/10/2020 16:19:29 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1357395

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2021
	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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps the Government is taking to encourage covid-19 vaccination uptake among harder to reach groups.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
	uin	903597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>We continue to focus our efforts on those groups with the lowest rates of vaccine uptake. Recent initiatives include co-producing a toolkit aimed at improving vaccine uptake among the Black African and Black Caribbean groups, among whom rates have been the lowest. We also produced two animations explaining the entitlement to vaccination for migrants, and held pop-up clinics for those without NHS numbers. Over time, both positive vaccine sentiment and vaccine uptake have increased among all ethnic groups.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 22/09/2021 16:42:32 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1357397

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2021
	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	Women: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to improve healthcare for women.
	tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Green
	uin	903600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government will publish England’s first Women’s Health Strategy later this year which will set out a positive new agenda to improve the health and wellbeing of women across England. To ensure that the Strategy is evidence-based and reflects women’s priorities, we ran a Call for Evidence earlier this year. This attracted over 100,000 responses from individual women, clinicians and carers and around 500 longer written submissions, which we are now analysing.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 22/09/2021 16:46:59 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1357396

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2021
	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	Females: Economic Situation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to help ensure an equitable economic recovery for women from the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	903599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>The Treasury has offered an unprecedented level of support to both individuals and businesses during this pandemic. In responding to the economic challenges of COVID-19, the Government carefully considered the equality impact of both individual measures and fiscal events on those sharing protected characteristics, including gender, in line with its legal obligations and its strong commitment to promoting fairness. This year, we have invested £44 million to support family childcare costs, enabling local authorities to increase hourly rates paid to childcare providers.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 22/09/2021 16:43:18 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1381628

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2021
	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	Equality: Artificial Intelligence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking to tackle the effect of algorithmic bias on equality.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	904392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2021 answer text <p>We take this issue very seriously. On Monday my Rt Hon. friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced a review into possible inadvertent bias in medical devices. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has also set tackling the challenges faced by AI as one of the priority work areas in its draft strategic plan for the next three years. It is engaging with key stakeholders in AI, like the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Alan Turing Institute and is developing guidance on AI and the Public Sector Equality Duty, for government departments and public bodies, which will be published early in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 24/11/2021 15:22:13 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1285456

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2021
	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	Disadvantaged: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking to tackle inequality during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Liz Twist
	uin	912159
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2021 answer text <p>We recognise that COVID-19 is impacting people in different ways, as I noted in my first quarterly report to the Prime Minister. Addressing these disparities is a priority for the whole Government. Our economic response is protecting people right across society – saving jobs, keeping businesses afloat and ensuring those most impacted have the support they need.</p><p>We are also working hard through local networks to ensure key information reaches all segments of society – for example through investing in our £23 million Community Champions scheme.</p><p>We’re seeing very positive developments in our vaccine roll-out – as recognised recently by the Bank of England. It’s vital the vaccine programme reaches all parts of our community and we have established a National Equalities Board to ensure that happens.</p><p>The Government is determined that our recovery from this virus will build back fairer for everyone.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 10/02/2021 15:25:46 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4618 label Biography information for Liz Twist

1381626

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2021
	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	Females: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking to support women's participation in the economic recovery from the covid-19 pandemic.
	tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
	tabling member printed	Cherilyn Mackrory
	uin	904390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2021 answer text <p>Through initiatives like the Rose Review, the Investing in Women Code, the Women in Innovation Awards and the Women in Finance Charter, and through our manifesto commitments on flexible working and carer’s leave, we are committed to supporting and promoting the role of women in the economic recovery.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 24/11/2021 15:18:10 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4758 label Biography information for Cherilyn Mackrory

1328051

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2021
	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	Females: New Businesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking to support female entrepreneurs.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	uin	900689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2021 answer text <p>Our Start Up Loans Company has a great track record, supporting female entrepreneurs with over 33,000 loans worth over £270.5 million since the scheme launched in 2012, to the end of April 2021. This represents 40% of the total amount lent. Over £4.5 million of these loans have been made since the start of April 2021. The scheme provides intensive support to new entrepreneurs, including low-cost government-backed loans and free mentoring.</p><p>In March, we announced an award of £50,000 each to the UK's top female innovators, as well as bespoke mentoring, to scale up and bring to market their innovations, and to help the UK recover from COVID-19 and tackle global challenges.</p><p>The Government has taken active measures, publishing the Investing in Women Code and working with industry through the actions agreed by the Rose Review. In response to the Rose Review recommendations, we set an ambition to increase the number of female entrepreneurs by half by 2030, equivalent to nearly 600,000 additional female entrepreneurs.</p><p>The government-backed British Business Bank is part of HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter, which asks financial services firms to commit to industry actions to prepare their female talent for leadership positions.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 900681 question first answered 26/05/2021 16:03:45 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1328053

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2021
	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	Females: New Businesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking to support female entrepreneurs.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Theo Clarke
	uin	900681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2021 answer text <p>Our Start Up Loans Company has a great track record, supporting female entrepreneurs with over 33,000 loans worth over £270.5 million since the scheme launched in 2012, to the end of April 2021. This represents 40% of the total amount lent. Over £4.5 million of these loans have been made since the start of April 2021. The scheme provides intensive support to new entrepreneurs, including low-cost government-backed loans and free mentoring.</p><p>In March, we announced an award of £50,000 each to the UK's top female innovators, as well as bespoke mentoring, to scale up and bring to market their innovations, and to help the UK recover from COVID-19 and tackle global challenges.</p><p>The Government has taken active measures, publishing the Investing in Women Code and working with industry through the actions agreed by the Rose Review. In response to the Rose Review recommendations, we set an ambition to increase the number of female entrepreneurs by half by 2030, equivalent to nearly 600,000 additional female entrepreneurs.</p><p>The government-backed British Business Bank is part of HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter, which asks financial services firms to commit to industry actions to prepare their female talent for leadership positions.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 900689 question first answered 26/05/2021 16:03:45 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4819 label Biography information for Theo Clarke