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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Equality (13 January 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, in 2010, whether the Government plans to enact the Equality Act’s socio-economic duty.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

Answer

There are no plans to implement the socio-economic duty for English and cross-border bodies. Such a general “due regard” duty has the potential to become a tick-box exercise, complied with to minimise the risk of legal challenge rather than to promote real change in social mobility.


Answered by:
Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Conservative)
18 January 2021

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