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1564992

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	Hillsborough Stadium: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to events at the Leppings Lane End at Hillsborough Stadium involving Newcastle United supporters on 7 January 2023, if her Department will take immediate steps with relevant stakeholders to improve fan safety at that stadium.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	118990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>The Football Association are investigating reports of overcrowding at the Leppings Lane End at Hillsborough Stadium on 7 January 2023.</p><p>The SGSA has a statutory responsibility for the issuing of licences to sports grounds for designated football matches in England and Wales, under the Football Spectators Act 1989. Grounds that are issued a licence, including Hillsborough Stadium, are all required to meet the same standards in order to safely admit spectators. The SGSA monitors this closely for all grounds that they licence.</p><p>The SGSA will remain in contact with the club, Sheffield City Council and the Safety Advisory Group as the facts are established and any implications for safety management arrangements at Hillsborough are considered. We are in contact with the SGSA on this matter.</p><p>The safety of spectators at sporting events is of the highest importance to His Majesty’s Government and we will continue to work closely with all relevant authorities to ensure that football fans can continue to enjoy the sport whilst attending matches safely.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 12/01/2023 10:19:02 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1565154

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	Business: Assistance Animals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether he plans to strengthen legislation on businesses which refuse entry to customers with assistance dogs.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	119240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>No one should be refused access to businesses or services because they legitimately have an assistance dog.</p><p>Strong protection already exists in the Equality Act 2010, which places a duty on businesses and service providers to make reasonable adjustments to improve disabled people’s access to goods and services so they are not placed at a substantial disadvantage compared to non-disabled people. This reasonable adjustment duty is an anticipatory duty, meaning that those who provide goods, facilities and services to members of the public are expected to anticipate the reasonable adjustments that disabled customers may require, including auxiliary aids.</p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is the public body responsible for enforcing the Equality Act. In 2017, the Commission published two pieces of guidance - a guide to help businesses understand what they can do to meet their legal duties to assistance dog owners, and a guide to help tourism businesses welcome people with access requirements. The EHRC supports disabled individuals who have experienced discrimination to take their cases to court.</p><p>In recent years, case law has strengthened the equalities law for people with assistance dogs. There have been a number of significant cases brought under the Equality Act involving assistance dogs, which have been successfully litigated, for example, Bloch v Kassim (assistance dogs in taxis); Clutton and Williams v Pen-y-Bryn Group (assistance dogs in restaurants); and McCafferty v Miah (assistance dogs in shops). The Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS), the equalities and human rights helpline, receives about 35,000 customer contacts a year, more than 60% of which concern disability issues. The EASS can intervene directly with or assist the complainant to take the case up with the relevant service provider in many cases, including those involving assistance dogs.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 12/01/2023 17:57:25 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1564127

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
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	Swimming: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps she has taken with her Cabinet colleagues to ensure that all children of (a) primary and (b) secondary school age receive tuition in (i) swimming, (ii) swimming life-saving skills and (iii) water safety.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	117688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>Swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. Swimming and water safety are also vital life skills.</p><p>The Department for Education is responsible for the national curriculum that sets out that all primary schools must provide swimming instruction. All primary schools in England receive PE and sport premium funding, which can be used to purchase support from organisations who can assist schools in overcoming barriers to the delivery of school swimming and water safety.</p><p>Last academic year, the Department for Education’s programme to support schools to open their facilities enabled 101 schools to reopen their pools or extend the amount of swimming offered to pupils. Phase three of the Opening School Facilities programme will look to support schools with pools to maximise their usage.</p><p>New water safety resources have been made available to schools by the National Water Safety Forum, supporting teachers to deliver water safety in a classroom environment.</p><p>Alongside this Sport England has invested £12,775,274 in swimming and diving projects since April 2019, which includes £9,360,002 to Swim England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 11/01/2023 08:54:13 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1563359

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
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	Sikhs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government has sought legal advice on whether (a) public bodies and (b) decision makers fail in their equality duty if they are unable to establish the number of people who they employ or to whom they provide a service that have a Sikh ethnicity.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	114758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>The specific duties of the public sector equality duty apply to most public bodies in England, such as local authorities and schools; most public authorities operating across Great Britain, such as Government departments (except on devolved functions); and a small number of public bodies operating across one of the borders inside Great Britain. These duties also apply to decision-makers who are not public authorities but exercise public functions. Public bodies subject to the specific duties must publish information to show their compliance with the public sector equality duty. The information must include:</p><ul><li>information relating to people who are affected by the public body’s policies and practices, such as service users, and who share protected characteristics;</li><li>and for public bodies with 150 or more employees, information relating to those of the public body’s employees who share protected characteristics.</li></ul><p>The specific duties are intended to enable better performance of the public sector equality duty, but there is no requirement to hold or publish information to any particular level of detail. Similarly, there is no prescribed format. It is up to each public body to decide for itself what information it publishes. This will vary greatly depending on the size of the body, the range of functions it performs, and the extent to which those functions could affect equality.</p><p>However, public bodies and decision-makers who think that their decisions may affect discrimination, harassment, or victimisation of Sikhs, affect equality of opportunity between Sikhs and people of different ethnicity, or affect Sikhs’ relations with people of different ethnicity, should ensure that their compliance with the duty includes considerations of Sikh ethnicity.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 12/01/2023 17:48:05 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1563360

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
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	Sikhs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Government's website entitled Ethnicity Facts and Figures, how many and what proportion of the datasets which appear on that site contain data which can be disaggregated in such a way as to provide specific information on the number of Sikhs in each category, in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	114759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>According to the Office for National Statistics’ latest Equalities Data Audit (Nov 2022), 22 of the data sources used on Ethnicity facts and figures collect religion data as well as ethnicity. This is 29% of all the data sources used on Ethnicity facts and figures. There are 73 datasets (pages) in Ethnicity facts and figures that use data from these sources; this is 39% of all datasets. Sample sizes for each source vary so it may not always be possible to provide reliable estimates when disaggregating data by both ethnic group and religion.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 11/01/2023 17:03:42 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1563410

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
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: Parking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of legislation requiring landlords to designate a disabled parking bay for residents who need one; and if she will make an estimate of the proportion of landlords who are meeting this requirement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	114768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>When commenced, the reasonable adjustments to common parts duty under the Equality Act 2010 (the 2010 Act) will require landlords to make reasonable adjustments to the communal or shared areas of residential properties, when requested to do so by a qualifying disabled resident. Outdoor areas such as car parks are within the scope of the provision and therefore, if the request for a designated parking bay is reasonable, this would be a required adaptation under section 36 of the 2010 Act, once fully commenced.</p><p>The parking concessions provided under the Blue Badge Scheme only apply to on-street parking and not to off-street car parks. Currently, both local authorities and private parking operators are already required under the 2010 Act to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people and to provide them equal opportunities to access services. This is an anticipatory duty and is seen in the Blue Badge Scheme and in the provision of wider bays for ease of access.</p><p>Although operators of private car parks are required to make reasonable adjustments, the form that those adjustments take is up to individual operators, who can best judge what is appropriate within their car parks.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 114769 question first answered 11/01/2023 17:30:54 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1563411

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
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	Blue Badge Scheme: Property Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to set criteria for a minimum number of parking bays designated for blue badge holders in (a) new and (b) existing developments.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	114769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>When commenced, the reasonable adjustments to common parts duty under the Equality Act 2010 (the 2010 Act) will require landlords to make reasonable adjustments to the communal or shared areas of residential properties, when requested to do so by a qualifying disabled resident. Outdoor areas such as car parks are within the scope of the provision and therefore, if the request for a designated parking bay is reasonable, this would be a required adaptation under section 36 of the 2010 Act, once fully commenced.</p><p>The parking concessions provided under the Blue Badge Scheme only apply to on-street parking and not to off-street car parks. Currently, both local authorities and private parking operators are already required under the 2010 Act to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people and to provide them equal opportunities to access services. This is an anticipatory duty and is seen in the Blue Badge Scheme and in the provision of wider bays for ease of access.</p><p>Although operators of private car parks are required to make reasonable adjustments, the form that those adjustments take is up to individual operators, who can best judge what is appropriate within their car parks.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 114768 question first answered 11/01/2023 17:30:54 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1563049

registered interest
date	19/12/2022
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	Sports: LGBT+ People
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 she will make it her policy only to back bids for major sporting events from nations which uphold LGBT+ rights.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	113462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>Sport operates independently of the government, therefore the government does not back bids from other nations for major sporting events.</p><p>The Government has frank conversations at international level with our counterparts around the world on human rights issues, including LGBT rights, and we will continue to have those conversations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 09/01/2023 09:07:07 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1551980

registered interest
date	15/12/2022
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	Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend Section 7 of the Equality Act 2010 in order to (a) replace the references to the term transsexual with a different term and (b) remove the requirement that a person covered by that Section shall be proposing to undergo, be undergoing or have undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning that person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	111703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is clear that we want people who are transgender to be able to live their lives as they wish. On a) we recognise that the term ‘transsexual’ used in the Equality Act 2010 is seen by many to be outdated. We understand those concerns and do not use the term in our policy or communications work. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) explain their approach by stating: “We recognise that some people consider this term outdated, so in this guidance we use the term ‘trans’ to refer to a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment”<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>.</p><p>In terms of the scope of that protected characteristic, as the EHRC sets out<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup>, the Equality Act definition is broad, does not require medical treatment and will include those who may “prefer to be described as a transperson, or transmale or transfemale or transgender”.</p><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> For example in their April 2022 guidance for providers of single sex spaces: <a href="http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/separate-and-single-sex-service-providers-guide-equality-act-sex-and-gender#language" target="_blank">www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/separate-and-single-sex-service-providers-guide-equality-act-sex-and-gender#language</a></p><p><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> <a href="https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/gender-reassignment-discrimination" target="_blank">www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/gender-reassignment-discrimination</a></p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 20/12/2022 16:17:57 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1551996

registered interest
date	15/12/2022
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	FIFA: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government has made representations to the FIFA President on his remarks on equality and inclusion on 20 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	111726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2022 answer text <p>Sport operates independently of the government, therefore direct representations to FIFA on equality and inclusion would be a matter for Home Nation football governing bodies to raise.</p><p>The Government continues to work with National Governing Bodies of sport and sector organisations to tackle LGBT discrimination in local, national and international sport. Our aim is to increase diversity within sporting organisations and to help the sport sector be more inclusive and welcoming to its spectators, participants and people in its workforce.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/12/2022 09:07:41 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper