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652770

registered interest
date	06/12/2016
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: Publicity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much her Department spent on advertising the services provided by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	56261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The Equality &amp; Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is an independent body which, among other statutory functions, enforces the Equality Act 2010, encourages good practice in relation to equality and diversity, and monitors the effectiveness of the equality and human rights enactments. My Department promotes the EHRC’s functions where appropriate in the normal course of its own activities but since 2010 has not spent anything on advertising its services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/12/2016 17:24:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

652395

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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	Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the implications of the analysis by the Office for National Statistics of time use data, published on 10 November 2016, on the Government's work to tackle the gender pay gap; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	56053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>I have considered the analysis undertaken by the Office for National Statistics. The report demonstrates that women carry out an overall average of 60% more unpaid work than men. On average men do 16 hours per week of such unpaid work, which includes adult care and child care, laundry and cleaning, to the 26 hours of unpaid work done by women per week.</p><p> </p><p>This has relevance to our efforts to close the gender pay gap as this may be one of the factors that affects the number of hours that women work which in turn affects the gender pay gap. I am pleased to confirm that the draft regulations, requiring large employers to publish details of their gender pay gap, were laid in the house on Tuesday.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/12/2016 16:39:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

652396

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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	Bank Services: Non-binary People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to encourage banks to include a non-binary gender option on their official documents.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	56057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Equality and Human Rights Commission is the regulator for the public sector equality duty set out in section 149 of the Equality Act 2010. The Commission uses a range of levers to ensure local authorities and other public bodies comply with the requirements of the duty, from provision of guidance through to enforcement activity where it considers there to be a strategic benefit.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In light of the Brighton University report highlighted by the Honourable Member, the Commission will be writing to the Local Government Association (LGA) drawing its attention to the findings of the research and of the Commission’s evidence of the key equality challenges facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and asking the LGA to remind local authorities of their legal obligations under the public sector equality duty.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We encourage all service providers, including financial services, to provide a welcoming environment for all customers, including transgender and non-binary customers.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">To support this aim, we published ‘Providing services for transgender customers: a guide’ in November 2015 to help service providers ensure transgender people are welcomed, included and valued as customers, clients, users or members, and to ensure they are treated fairly and appropriately. It also aims to help service providers comply with the law.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We welcome the fact that some banks, such as the Metro Bank, allow customers to select non-binary as a gender option.</ins></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/12/2016 09:25:50 question first ministerially corrected 13/12/2016 13:16:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage previous answer version 25173 answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

649537

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Gender Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Government's response to Recommendations 4 to 8 of Women and Equalities Committee Report on Transgender Equality, Cm 9301, if she will set out a timetable for the review of the Gender Recognition Act to determine whether changes can be made to improve it in order to streamline and de-medicalise the gender recognition process; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	55809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>We have committed to a review of the Gender Recognition Act to streamline and demedicalise the gender recognition process, which will include an examination of how alternative gender recognition schemes operate in other countries.</p><p>We have begun our programme of work on reviewing the gender recognition process, and we will provide an update on the Government’s progress in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 55808 question first answered 06/12/2016 15:18:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

649538

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Gender Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Government's response to Recommendations 4 to 8 of the Women and Equalities Committee Report on Transgender Equality, Cm 9301, over what timeframe she plans to monitor the implementation of alternative gender recognition processes in other jurisdictions; which such jurisdictions she plans to monitor; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	55808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>We have committed to a review of the Gender Recognition Act to streamline and demedicalise the gender recognition process, which will include an examination of how alternative gender recognition schemes operate in other countries.</p><p>We have begun our programme of work on reviewing the gender recognition process, and we will provide an update on the Government’s progress in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 55809 question first answered 06/12/2016 15:18:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

649539

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Government's response to Recommendation 10 of the Women and Equalities Committee Report on Transgender Equality, Cm 9301, through what mechanisms she plans to listen to and monitor people's experiences of discrimination, harassment or victimisation; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	55807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government regularly engages with transgender organisations to receive feedback and insight into the community. We also listen to testimony and monitor evidence, such as court cases and reports, to improve our understanding and insight.</p><p>This is part of our commitment to understand the needs of the transgender community, in order to tackle the discrimination and inequality they face.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/12/2016 15:19:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

647811

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities inquiry concerning the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 6 October 2016.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	55500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>We have carefully noted the Committee’s findings and recommendations, some of which were also raised by the Lords Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability in its report to Parliament in March.</p><p>The recommendations concern un-commenced provisions in the Equality Act 2010. The Coalition Government did not commence a number of provisions in the Act because of concerns over excessive regulation and potential cost to business. We are considering the future of these provisions, each of which raise different issues around regulatory complexity, implementation, compliance costs, and new burdens for both private and public sectors.</p><p>In the case of Section 36 of the Act - the duty to make reasonable adjustments to the common parts of leasehold properties – the Government Equalities Office is reviewing, with other involved Departments, the scope for implementation while ensuring that any new burdens placed on government departments and local authorities as a result of implementing these provisions, are carefully assessed. We will report on the outcome of this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/12/2016 15:19:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

647289

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	Gender Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to page 11 of the Government response to the First Report from the Women and Equalities Committee, Session 2015-16, on Transgender Equality, column 9301, published in July 2016, what progress the Government has made on reviewing the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to determine whether changes can be made to streamline and de-medicalise the gender recognition process.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	55074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>In our response to the Committee in July, the Government committed to a range of significant actions designed to improve the lives and experiences of transgender people.</p><p>We agree with the Committee that issues raised are serious and complex. That is why we are engaging with stakeholders to make sure any changes we make are based on evidence and user needs.</p><p>On the action plans specifically, we are in the process of collating updates and will publish a summary in 2017.</p><p>On reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, we’ve been engaging with ministers on how to take this commitment forward and we have begun our stakeholder engagement programme by meeting the Gender Recognition Panel.</p><p>We will provide an update on the Government’s progress in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 55076 55077 55078 question first answered 01/12/2016 11:16:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

647291

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to page 8 of the Government response to the First Report from the Women and Equalities Committee, Session 2015-16, on Transgender Equality, column 9301, published in July 2016, and pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2016 to Question 45657, what progress the Government has made on (a) publishing update reports on the documents Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality: Moving Forward and Advancing transgender equality: a plan for action, published in 2011 and (b) producing a new action plan on transgender equality.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	55076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>In our response to the Committee in July, the Government committed to a range of significant actions designed to improve the lives and experiences of transgender people.</p><p>We agree with the Committee that issues raised are serious and complex. That is why we are engaging with stakeholders to make sure any changes we make are based on evidence and user needs.</p><p>On the action plans specifically, we are in the process of collating updates and will publish a summary in 2017.</p><p>On reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, we’ve been engaging with ministers on how to take this commitment forward and we have begun our stakeholder engagement programme by meeting the Gender Recognition Panel.</p><p>We will provide an update on the Government’s progress in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 55074 55077 55078 question first answered 01/12/2016 11:16:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

647292

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to page 30 of the Government response to the First Report from the Women and Equalities Committee, Session 2015-16, on Transgender Equality, Cm 9301, published in July 2016, to which heads of profession she wrote highlighting the need for training on transgender issues for their profession and asking them to introduce training if not already available and to monitor the effectiveness of any training provided; and what information she holds on steps taken by heads of profession in response to those letters.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	55077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>In our response to the Committee in July, the Government committed to a range of significant actions designed to improve the lives and experiences of transgender people.</p><p>We agree with the Committee that issues raised are serious and complex. That is why we are engaging with stakeholders to make sure any changes we make are based on evidence and user needs.</p><p>On the action plans specifically, we are in the process of collating updates and will publish a summary in 2017.</p><p>On reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, we’ve been engaging with ministers on how to take this commitment forward and we have begun our stakeholder engagement programme by meeting the Gender Recognition Panel.</p><p>We will provide an update on the Government’s progress in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 55074 55076 55078 question first answered 01/12/2016 11:16:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller