Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many equality impact assessments his Department completed in each year since 2006.

In the areas of its policy responsibilities, the Treasury has ensured that equality impacts are taken into account, in line with both its legal obligations and its commitment to promoting equality.

On 20 October 2010 and 26 June 2013 the Treasury published overviews of the impact of the 2010 Spending Review and the 2013 Spending Round respectively, on groups protected by equalities legislation. The Government has also driven improvements in tax policy making. The Government now publishes a Tax Information and Impact Note for all individual tax policy changes. These explicitly include an assessment of the equalities impact of each individual measure.