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1718479

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent progress she has made on assessing proposals to amend the Equality Act 2010 to clarify the protected characteristic of sex.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	26563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/05/2024 15:25:31 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1604158

registered interest
date	14/03/2023
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2023 to Question 903996 on Equality Act 2010, if he will outline the policies and practical actions that the Government plans to implement.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	165351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government is ensuring that all young people get every opportunity to go as far as their talents will take them. Social mobility initiatives include:</p><ul><li>Increasing the number of good school places, 87% of schools are now rated good or outstanding, up from 68% in 2010 and;</li><li>Ensuring people of all ages get the education and skills they need by investing in careers education, transforming technical education, and making apprenticeships and the higher education system more accessible.</li></ul><p>On 1 April 2023, the Government will increase the National Living Wage (NLW) for workers aged 23 years and over by 9.7% to £10.42. This keeps the Government on track to achieve its manifesto commitment for the NLW to equal two-thirds of median earnings by 2024 (if economic conditions allow).</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 21/03/2023 16:14:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1602240

registered interest
date	08/03/2023
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 Act 2010
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 implement section 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	903996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to commence Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 in England. As merely a “due regard” duty, it requires no specific action from the public body concerned, and risks becoming a tick-box exercise, complied with to minimise the risk of litigation rather than to promote real change in society. The duty is also wrongly focussed on equalising socio-economic outcomes rather than opportunities. The Government’s preferred approach is to progress specific policies and practical actions that will deliver real change.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 08/03/2023 12:53:13 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1544388

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of establishing an independent Equality Act regulator.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	93494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>My assessment is that such a body already exists. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is the independent public authority which enforces the Equality Act 2010. The EHRC’s Strategic Plan for 2022-2025 makes clear that acting as an independent, authoritative, agile regulator of equality and human rights is central to its strategy.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/11/2022 08:38:51 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1440845

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what progress she has made in identifying funding to extend the time limits for Equality Act claims from three to six months; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	139250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government continues to look closely at extending the time limit for bringing Equality Act 2010 based cases to employment tribunal.</p><p>This decision, however, must take account of wider impacts across the justice system. We recognise that the pandemic has put additional pressure on the entire courts and tribunal service, particularly the employment tribunal, and that restoring its existing levels of service needs to be the priority before additional loading is added.</p><p>While the time limit for bringing an Equality Act based claim to employment tribunal remains at three months, tribunals have the discretion to provide extensions where they consider it ‘just and equitable’ to do so.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 17/03/2022 15:40:06 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1419208

registered interest
date	02/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Equality Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines have been issued under s.165 of the Equality Act 2010 in each year since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	117040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice holds information on the number of fines issued to drivers of designated taxi / private hire vehicles who failed to comply with a duty imposed by section 165 of the Equality Act 2010, in England and Wales, from 2011 until 2020; this can be viewed in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 07/02/2022 17:21:56 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-02-7 PQ 117040 Final table.xlsx title 117040_table
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1403633

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether he plans to review the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	105710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 is continually kept under review to ensure that it operates as intended. A formal post-legislative scrutiny of the Act took place in 2015 and there are no current plans for a further such exercise.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 21/01/2022 13:59:04 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1329857

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will introduce an enforcement mechanism for the Equality Act 2010 for circumstances where a disabled person does not have the financial means to enforce their rights in civil court.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	10331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring effective access to judicial and/or administrative procedures in the courts for everyone, including disabled people, who think they have experienced discrimination.</p><p>As with all civil law in Great Britain, enforcement of the Equality Act 2010 falls to the individual or their agent or representative and the question of cost is one of the factors that must be weighed in their decision whether to proceed.</p><p>Legal aid for legal advice and representation may be available, subject to means and merits tests, for cases alleging unlawful discrimination, harassment or victimisation under the Equality Act 2010. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has powers to assist someone bringing a case under the Equality Act 2010, and uses these powers to intervene in cases which it considers to be of strategic importance. Any individual who requires advice on disability issues generally or in relation to service provision can contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service for free bespoke advice provision. The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) also provides free and impartial advice to disabled employees/candidates in relation to employment-related disability cases.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 09/06/2021 15:30:26 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1308016

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward amendments to the Equality Act 2010 to include caste as a protected characteristic.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	179578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>This Government completely opposes any discrimination because of a person’s origins, including any perceptions of their caste.</p><p>The <em>Tirkey v Chandhok</em> case in 2014 established that it is likely that anyone who believes that they have been discriminated against because of caste could bring a race discrimination claim under the existing ethnic origins limb of the race provisions in the Equality Act because of their descent.</p><p>The Government considers, having also taken into account over 16,000 responses to a 2017 consultation on this issue, that the <em>Tirkey </em>judgment serves as a welcome clarification of the existing protection under the Equality Act – helping to deter those inclined to treat others unfairly or unequally because of conceptions of caste.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 20/04/2021 16:45:32 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1299274

registered interest
date	03/03/2021
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 Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what plans she has to strengthen the protection against intersectional discrimination and enact section 14 of the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	162660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2021 answer text <p>We have no plans to implement the dual discrimination provision in the Act. We believe that current protections are adequate and that enactment would introduce unwelcome regulatory complexity and place new costly burdens on business and the public sector consequent on the introduction of a further 21 protected characteristics. In addition, an employee or service user may bring a discrimination claim under more than one ground, which the courts can then consider consecutively, where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 10/03/2021 10:13:23 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day