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date	09/09/2014
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	Public Appointments: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's publication entitled Appointments to Boards and Equality Law, published in August 2014.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Government welcomed the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) legal framework on board appointments. The Guidance was only recently published (July 2014) so it is still too early to assess its impact.</p><p> </p><p>The EHRC Guidance is clear that the deliberate use of all-women long-lists or shortlists is likely to constitute unlawful sex discrimination. However, where there is no predetermination to draw up an all-women shortlist and an objective and consistent assessment of all candidates demonstrates that the best qualified candidates are all women, an all-women shortlist will be lawful, just as an all-male shortlist would be in the same circumstances.</p><p>The framework is also useful in highlighting that there are many good practices that focus on positive measures that will help create an even playing field. This best practice has led to great progress being made in the number of women on boards. For the first time, every board of Britain’s top 100 companies have at least one woman and we now have over 22% women on the boards of our FTSE 100 companies (up from 12.5% in 2011).</p><p> </p><p>We could not have got this far without the excellent work of the Executive Search Community to improve gender parity in our boardrooms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 11/09/2014 11:20:15 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

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registered interest
date	26/06/2014
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 Ministers for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Answer of 29 January 2014, Official Report, column 575W, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, when she plans to place the requested information on the Dignity at Work conferences in the libraries of both Houses.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	202776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Information on the Dignity at Work conferences is in the process of being placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 07/07/2014 10:01:54 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

49758

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidance currently issued to managers at the Equality and Human Rights Commission on managing a diverse workforce.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an independent body and is responsible for its own staff management, including diversity training. The guidance papers requested are internal documents that were not intended for wider publication. However, I have asked the EHRC to send copies to the Hon Member.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies