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date	16/09/2015
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	Single People: Discrimination
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 prevent discrimination against single people.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	10517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Certain provisions in the Equality Act 2010 – for example permitted exceptions from the age discrimination requirements for retail concessions to students and pensioners – are likely to be of particular benefit to single people.</p><p>Single status is not a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010. In the provision of goods and services we believe there is a balance to be struck between the interests of single people and the commercial considerations of business. The government, therefore, has no plans to change the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/10/2015 11:47:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

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date	15/09/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that funding is in place to implement its policy of 30 hours free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	906536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to providing the high-quality, affordable childcare that working families need.</p><p> </p><p>To enable the successful implementation of 30 hours of free childcare, we are investing £1billion of additional funding per year, including £300million per year to increase our national average funding rates.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/10/2016 16:11:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias