Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Table 2, page 9 of her Department’s publication entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published in July 2024, for which savings measures set out in that Table her Department has conducted a (a) equality impact assessment and (b) environmental principles assessment.

As per standard practice, HMT officials conducted an equality and environmental assessment of all savings measures put forward by Departments within the July ‘Fixing the Foundations’ statement. In developing proposals, the Treasury took care to consider the equality impacts on those sharing protected characteristics in line with its legal obligations under the Equality Act 2010.