Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Equality

(asked on 31st October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many equality impact assessments his Department carried out in 2016; and how many such assessments the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills carried out in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 7th November 2016

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is placing equality at the heart of all policy and decision making.

To comply with the Equality Act 2010, BEIS, and the former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), assesses all key policies and decisions for any likely impact on individuals or groups with protected characteristics, and decisions are recorded.

There is no requirement for public bodies to keep a record of the number of assessments carried out. However, those that were published, for former BIS, can be found located alongside technical and economic Impact Assessments at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?commit=Refresh+results&departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&from_date=&keywords=&official_document_status=all&page=2&publication_filter_option=impact-assessments&to_date=&topics%5B%5D=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all.

No equality impact assessments have been published since the inception of BEIS.

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