Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Females
(asked on 8th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has undertaken an equality impact assessment of the terms of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme on women who have taken time out from earning for (a) maternity and (b) childcare reasons in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 15th June 2020
HMT takes care to pay due regard to the equality impacts of its policy decisions relating to the Covid-19 outbreak, including the equality impacts of the Self Employment Income Support Scheme, in line with all legal requirements and the Government’s commitment to promoting equality.