Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department’s policies on improving equality of opportunity.

We made a Manifesto commitment to improve the quality of evidence within Government about the types of barriers people face.

To deliver that promise, in December, The Secretary of State for Women and Equalities launched the Government’s equality data programme. That programme will consider socio-economic background and geography alongside factors such as sex, ethnicity and sexual orientation to enable us to understand where individuals are being held back across the UK.

The project aims to publish its first outputs in Summer 2021. The evidence from this inquiry will support the development of policy across Government to make the UK a fairer place to live and do business.