| Heading: |
Equality: Private Sector |
| Question ID: |
1796667 |
| UIN: |
47689 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4384 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mike Wood
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| Asking Member handle: |
mikejwood
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@mikejwood
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to stop public bodies imposing equality, diversity and inclusion requirements on private sector companies which are not otherwise directly required by primary legislation. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1541 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Nia Griffith
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| Answering Member handle: |
NiaGriffithMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@NiaGriffithMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Public Sector Equality Duty (the PSED) requires organisations in scope to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity, and foster good relations between different people. The scope of the PSED is set out in... |
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| Answering body ID: |
53 |
| Answering body name: |
Cabinet Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |