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Written Question
Visas: Equality
Monday 22nd April 2024

Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)

Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will have discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential impact of the increased Minimum Income Requirement on (a) women and (b) people belonging to specific ethnicities.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Minister for Women and Equalities wrote to all Government departments in December last year reminding them of their statutory duty to comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty when shaping policy and delivering services. The duty requires public authorities to ensure that equality issues are actively considered in order to remove or minimise disadvantage. As part of the Equality Act 2010, the Public Sector Equality Duty includes the protected characteristics of sex and race.

To assist departments' compliance with the duty, the Minister for Women and Equalities provided updated Public Sector Equality Duty guidance.

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Northern Ireland Office

Mar. 15 2024

Source Page: S75 screening in relation to hanging a portrait of His Majesty the King in the NIO Offices
Document: S75 Portraits of His Majesty the King in the NIO Office (PDF)

Found: of opportunity and/or good relations and so determine whether an Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA)

Written Question
Department for Education: Staff
Tuesday 19th March 2024

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people work in her Department's (a) Human Resources and Transformation Directorate and (b) Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) team; and whether the PSED team is part of the Human Resources and Transformation Directorate.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

Every department across government has a responsibility for equalities. Under the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), all public authorities, including government departments, are required by law to ensure that they have due regard to certain equality considerations when carrying out their functions. The government is auditing the cost-effectiveness of all equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) activities, through the review of EDI spending announced last June, to ensure value for money for taxpayers.

The Minister for the Cabinet Office will be outlining the final proposals in response to the review in due course. As at the end of February 2024 there were 156 people working in the department’s Human Resources and Transformation Directorate. The PSED team is not part of the department’s Human Resources and Transformation Directorate.

The ‘general duty’ of the PSED is in Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 and requires public authorities in England, Scotland and Wales to give due regard to certain equality considerations when carrying out their functions.The department's PSED team sits within the department's central Strategy Group and ensures that the department is compliant with Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010. The PSED team is resourced by 0.8 FTE. In addition, the department, through the PSED team, has a model of maintaining dispersed capacity across the department to comply with its duties.

Scottish Government Publication (Advice and guidance)
External Affairs Directorate

Feb. 16 2024

Source Page: Mainstreaming gender equality in Scottish Government funded international development projects and programmes: guidance note
Document: Guidance Note: Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Scottish Government Funded International Development Projects and Programmes (PDF)

Found: Mainstreaming gender equality in Scottish Government funded international development projects and programmes

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
HM Land Registry

Mar. 05 2024

Source Page: HM Land Registry: equality information 2022 to 2023
Document: HM Land Registry: equality information 2022 to 2023 (webpage)

Found: HM Land Registry: equality information 2022 to 2023

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

Mar. 26 2024

Source Page: Equality Statistics for the Northern Ireland Civil Service - 2024
Document: Equality Statistics for the Northern Ireland Civil Service - 2024 (webpage)

Found: Equality Statistics for the Northern Ireland Civil Service - 2024

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

May. 10 2024

Source Page: Gender equality and social inclusion mainstreaming research: final report
Document: Gender equality and social inclusion mainstreaming research: final report (webpage)

Found: Gender equality and social inclusion mainstreaming research: final report

Deposited Papers

Jan. 14 2010

Source Page: Tackling race inequality: a statement on race. 52 p.
Document: DEP2010-0109.pdf (PDF)

Found: Individual older people and interested professionals from other sectors are also invited to join the

Non-Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
HM Revenue & Customs

Mar. 11 2024

Source Page: Basis Reform Period
Document: Basis Reform Period (webpage)

Found: Impact assessment Basis Reform Period Screening equality impact assessment for

Select Committee
Correspondence to the Minister for Women and Equalities, relating to the rights of older people, dated 23 May

Correspondence May. 24 2024

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Correspondence to the Minister for Women and Equalities, relating to the rights of older people, dated