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800490

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date	04/12/2017
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	Ethnic Groups: Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what comparative assessment she has made of the difference in the reported level of in-person bullying against BAME people and the reported level against non-BAME people.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	117111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 prohibits certain forms of conduct – including harassment – in employment and the provision of goods, services and public functions. Harassment is defined as unwanted conduct related to someone’s protected characteristics and which has the purpose or effect of violating their dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them. However, “bullying” is not a term used in the Act, and incidents of “bullying” are not recorded.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Advisory and Support Service, a Government-sponsored helpline that offers free advice and support to people who feel that they have been victims of unlawful discrimination, records and makes available statistics on all the customer contacts that it receives.</p><p> </p><p>Between 1 October 2016 - when the current service provider took over running the contract - and 28 February 2018, the Service recorded 1443 customer contacts concerning harassment across all the protected characteristics covered by the Act, 310 (21%) of which were related to race.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/04/2018 10:29:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

800761

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date	04/12/2017
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, when she plans to begin her review of the Equality and Human Rights Commission; and whether the scope of that review will include staffing levels and the implications of recent redundancies.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	117382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department expects to start its review of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) during the first half of 2018 as part of the standard “tailored review” programme for public bodies. The EHRC’s resources, and its range of functions and responsibilities, will be among the issues which the review will cover.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/12/2017 17:40:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

800731

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
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: HIV Infection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many cases of HIV-related workplace discrimination have been reported, in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	117352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>The Employment Tribunal Service case management system does not collect or hold the level of detail of information requested, which could only be obtained from the paper records of each tribunal office.</p><p> </p><p>People with HIV are automatically considered disabled for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 and afforded all the relevant protections under its provisions, which make it unlawful to discriminate against people because of a disability in matters of employment, education and the provision of goods and services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/12/2017 14:16:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield