UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
(asked on 20th March 2023) - View Source
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government when they will submit their report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this year.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
We will not be submitting a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this year. Since we last went through the reporting cycle there has been a change in process, and we now follow the simplified reporting procedure.
Under the simplified reporting procedure, the Committee sends a list of issues to the state party, to which the state party sends a reply. This reply constitutes the periodic report. This change came into effect after the Committee issued their concluding observations on our eighth periodic report in 2019.
The Committee has not yet indicated when they will send the list of issues.