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387379

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what instructions have been given to staff in the Government Equalities Office dealing with freedom of information requests on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No. 19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, in considering whether to apply the exemptions in section 38 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	5328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>No guidance has been issued to staff on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No.19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, about the application of section 38 of the Act. However, the Ministry of Justice has published its own guidance on the use of this exemption. This is available here: <a title="http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance" href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/07/2015 10:33:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387381

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, on how many occasions the Government Equalities Office applied the exemption in section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the safety of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	5307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Section 38(1)(a) and Section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act have not been used by the Government Equalities Office in the last 5 years.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 5286 question first answered 09/07/2015 10:35:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387102

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family law cases have cited the Human Rights Act 1998 since that Act came into effect.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	5148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Applications to the Family Court are made and recorded by reference to the relevant provision in family law. Details of how many family law cases specifically cited the Human Rights Act 1998 since it came into force could only be obtained by manually checking every case file at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2015 11:07:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

386715

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Child Abuse in North Wales Judicial Inquiry Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent information he has received on when the report of the Macur Review is due to be published.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	4732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>Lady Justice Macur’s Review is entirely independent of Government and its timetable is a matter for her. She made clear at the outset that her Review would be thorough and that she would not draw any conclusions until she had considered all the evidence.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/07/2015 08:49:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

386797

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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: Public Appointments
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 a list of all public appointments made by the Government Equalities Office between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	4966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities made two public appointments to the Equality and Human Rights Commission between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015. The following appointments were made on 6 January 2015, for a period of 4 years, until 5 January 2019:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Susan Johnson OBE – EHRC Commissioner</p></li><li><p>Lorna McGregor – EHRC Commissioner</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/07/2015 16:49:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

386338

registered interest
date	29/06/2015
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, what steps she is taking to implement the conclusions of the Equality Strategy - Building a Fairer Britain, published in December 2010, particularly those in Section 3 of that strategy involving the devolution of power to local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	4684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>A progress report on the Equality Strategy was published on 22 May 2012. In relation to Section 3 of that strategy, the Department for Communities and Local Government is undertaking a number of initiatives in support of this aim. These include the Delivering Differently in Neighbourhoods programme, which is providing 24 local authorities with grants to redesign services so that they are delivered at neighbourhood level, and the Our Place programme, which is putting the local community at the heart of decision making by bringing together local councillors, public servants, businesses and the community to revolutionise the way the neighbourhood works.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2015 16:20:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

387149

registered interest
date	29/06/2015
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 Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to address the reduction in the number of sex discrimination cases brought before employment tribunals.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	900727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>On 11 June, we announced the start of the post-implementation review of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals. The review will consider how successful the change has been in achieving its original objectives and seek to assess the impact fees have had.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/07/2015 10:50:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

385535

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when and with whom she consulted on the details of regulations to be introduced under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 for the purpose of requiring the publication of information showing whether there are differences in the pay of males and females.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	4031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>A public consultation will be published soon with a view to making regulations in the first half of 2016. Building on the series of well-attended stakeholder events last year, in this Parliament we have already consulted business, civil society and trade unions as part of continuing engagement around the gender pay reporting. We will be engaging other interested parties before the regulations are prepared.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2015 16:17:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

385536

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make regulations under section 78 of the Equality Act 2010 for the purpose of requiring the publication of information showing whether there are differences in the pay of males and females.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	4029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government will deliver its manifesto commitment to require companies with at least 250 employees to publish gender pay information at the earliest opportunity. A consultation will be published in the next few days with a view to making regulations in early 2016.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/07/2015 10:03:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

385556

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Membership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the UK last nominated a member of the expert committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; and for what reason she has not made a nomination in relation to forthcoming vacancies.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
uin	3995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK government has not put forward a candidate for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women since signing the Convention in 1981. Whilst nominating a candidate has been considered, a variety of reasons such as the timing of the election and the resources required from across Government have meant that we have not yet done so.</p><p> </p><p><br> The UK strongly supports the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) against Women and it is committed to advancing women’s rights. We are fully committed to the CEDAW process, including submitting reports and participating in the oral examination, and are fully engaged with the UN and the Committee. UK nationals are well represented on other UN treaty monitoring bodies, such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2015 16:33:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart