Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 25 February (HL Deb, col 148) that they will publish an equality impact assessment for all Government bills, whether they have produced such an impact assessment for the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill; and if so, where it has been published.

The Policy Equality Impact Assessments for the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill were published on 5 March 2020 on the GOV.UK website following the introduction of the Bill into the House of Commons.

Two Policy Equality Impact Assessments have been published: one on the immigration clauses and a separate one on the Social Security Co-ordination clause, where DWP is the lead department.

The documents can be found at the following links:

On immigration:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/870581/Policy-equality-impact-assessment-immigration.pdf

On social security co-ordination

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/870582/Policy-equality-impact-assessment-social-security-co-ordination.pdf