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1693662

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date	04/03/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which unit in her Department is responsible for equalities.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	17023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>Every department across government has a responsibility for equalities. The Human Resources and Transformation Directorate is responsible for equalities in the Department for Education. The department also has a Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) team who can provide colleagues with advice on equalities-related issues. Under the PSED, all public authorities, including government departments, are required by law to ensure that they have due regard to certain equality considerations when carrying out their functions.</p><p> </p><p>The government is auditing the cost-effectiveness of all equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) activities, through the review of EDI spending announced last June, to ensure value for money for taxpayers. The Minister for Cabinet Office will be outlining the final proposals in response to the review in due course.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/03/2024 11:36:32 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1691375

registered interest
date	23/02/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in their Department have job titles that include the words (a) equality, (b) diversity, (c) inclusion, (d) gender, (e) LGBT and (f) race.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	15469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Departmental records are categorised by job grade only.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 04/03/2024 17:19:42 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1683148

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many equalities impact assessments her Department completed in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	10250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Under the Public Sector Equality Duty, all public authorities, including government departments, are required by law to ensure that they have due regard to certain equality considerations when carrying out their functions. While equality impact assessments may be produced, there is no legal requirement for duty assessments to be recorded in a specific format.</p><p>The department promotes awareness of the requirements of the Duty and how to comply with them. The department does not collect statistics on the number of assessments made. Therefore, the information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/01/2024 10:51:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1236299

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people his Department and its agencies employ in teams working on issues relating to diversity, equality or inclusion.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	92888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department currently has eight employees in central teams who work directly on issues relating to diversity, equality and inclusion. We do not, however, hold data on further teams across the Department who might work on these issues as part of their wider role.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/09/2020 15:18:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien