Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, to which legislation his Department has applied the Family Test, published in August 2014.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, in 2014 the Government introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Minsters. The Family Test was not designed to be a ‘tick-box’ exercise, and as such there is no requirement for departments to publish the results of assessments made under the Family Test.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen families.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for International Trade is committed to providing family friendly policies, e.g. maternity leave, parental leave, adoption leave, foster care leave, career breaks and emergency special leave with bereavement and carers leave. In addition, we advocate flexible working to help our staff achieve a good work-life balance, and also offer Childcare Vouchers.
We also provide an Employee Assistance Programme that gives access to health and fitness information and legal and financial advice, as well as counselling for staff and their immediate families where required.