Women and Equalities

Questions answered by this department

• 5. What steps she is taking to help disabled people with the cost of transport.
• T5. Will the Minister set out what steps she is taking to ensure compliance with the legal framework around single-sex s
• I thank the Minister very much for that answer, but he will know that in Northern Ireland the disability employment gap
• 2. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle period poverty.
• 12. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle violence against women and girls.
• T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
• I welcome the recent revision to the way the Motability changes are set to be delivered, which will ensure that people c
• The Secretary of State has made class a central theme of her equalities agenda, but before she can tackle class-based di
• The Secretary of State recently announced the closure of the independent Social Mobility Commission and its replacement
• T4. For nearly a decade, Dunfermline Athletic football club has made Samaritans its main charity partner. Through matchd
• Thousands of prisoners are being released early on condition that they wear a security tag. Is the Minister aware of med
• I recently met a resident in my constituency who is blind and relies on an assistance dog to get about in his local area
• Time and again, powerful men are abusing women and then trying to silence them. Every woman must be protected, so will M
• In the three months since the revised code of practice came into force, trans people have reported being forced out of a
• 4. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help remove children from poverty.
• 3. What assessment she has made of the impact on trans people of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s updated serv
• I warmly welcome the extension of the travel hours for those with disabled bus passes, but there is one further step tha
• Chart Way is a major pedestrian route into central Horsham, but its street lighting is operated by the owner of an adjac
• Members will have heard me speak many times about the injustice of victims of sexual assault and rape on the Isle of Wig
• Female genital mutilation is one of the most serious forms of violence against women and girls, yet the Government’s und
• Child poverty haunts Edinburgh. In Scotland’s capital there are more homeless children than there are in the whole of Wa
• Period poverty is a huge issue. The measures that the Minister has outlined are welcome, but it is a much wider issue. I
• T6. The Prime Minister has said that it is important that rape and sexual assault victims do not feel like they are the
• Will the Minister join me in paying tribute to my constituent Lyndsay Hogg for her tireless campaign to persuade busines
• T3. There is a clear distinction between discussion and disagreement, and harmful conversion practices. The Government’s
• Yesterday, ITV News and The Guardian reported disturbing allegations, only possible thanks to the courage of the women w
• Thank you, Mr Speaker—[Interruption.] On behalf of menopausal women around the world, I thank the House for that warm we
• 7. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that disabled people receive appropriate reasonable adjust
• I am proud of what the previous Labour Government did in rolling out Sure Start services, and of the role that I played
• A report in July by the Women and Equalities Committee found that black people are four times more likely to experience
• T7. In November last year, the former Prime Minister pledged to hold a national summit on men and boys by the end of 202
• To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Office for Eq