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388172

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Civil Partnerships Act 2004
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has any plans to bring forward an amendment to the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 to permit opposite sex civil partnerships.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	5833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to extend the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to opposite sex couples.</p><p> </p><p>The Government carried out a review of the operation and future of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 required by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which included a full public consultation inviting views on potential changes to civil partnership.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published a report, following the review, which concluded that the Government would not make any changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/07/2015 06:06:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

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

387380

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)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the physical or mental health 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	5286
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 5307 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

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

387126

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Employment: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what representations the Government has made to employers on the introduction of company policies to tackle sexism at work and the use of staff representatives with whom employees can raise such issues.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	5155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Government established <em>Think, Act, Report </em>in 2011 to provide a simple, step by step framework for companies to build gender equality into their business planning, particularly in relation to recruitment, retention, promotion and pay. Now over 280 businesses, collectively employing well over 2.5 million employees are signed up, providing a powerful community of best practice who are leading the way on gender equality in the workplace. To further champion gender equality in the workplace, Government set up the Women’s Business Council in 2012, which is delivering a wide range of programmes to tackle discrimination and drive culture change through industry-led solutions to support the advancement of women. Staff representatives play a vital role in supporting their colleagues to address unacceptable attitudes and practices. Acas (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) has published guidance for employers on ‘Trade Union Representation in the Workplace’ which is available online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/4/8/Trade-Union-Representation-in-the-Workplace-accessible-version.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/4/8/Trade-Union-Representation-in-the-Workplace-accessible-version.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/07/2015 10:39:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

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

387150

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	Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to tackle (a) forced marriage and (b) female genital mutilation.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	James Berry
uin	900728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Girl Summit, hosted by the Prime Minister and UNICEF in July 2014, underlined the United Kingdom’s leadership in stamping out forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).</p><p>We made forced marriage a criminal offence and the first conviction was secured last month. We also introduced a package of new measures to tackle FGM through the Serious Crime Act 2015 including victim anonymity, mandatory reporting of FGM, a new offence of parental liability and the introduction of FGM protection orders.</p><p>The Government recognises that legislation alone is not enough to tackle FGM and forced marriage, and our specialist FGM and Forced Marriage Units lead and deliver wide-ranging prevention and awareness-raising work.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2015 16:28:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4489 label Biography information for James Berry

385998

registered interest
date	26/06/2015
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	Sports: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which women's (a) rugby, (b) cricket and (c) football matches she has attended in an official capacity since taking office.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	4418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Both the Secretary of State for Education and Minster for Women and Equalities and I have yet to attend any women’s rugby, cricket or football matches since taking office. I have regular dialogue with the Minister for Sport, and I have recently met with the coach of a women’s cricket team. I look forward to supporting our other women’s teams when their sporting seasons begin.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/07/2015 13:16:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage previous answer version 11175 answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick