Defence written question – answered at on 6 March 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what equality impact assessments his Department has carried out since May 2010; and for what purpose in each case.
The Ministry of Defence considers equality issues in exercising its functions, to comply with equality legislation and to ensure it understands how its activities will affect different people. It provides information about this consideration in various ways. In the specified period, this information was sometimes published in the form of an equality impact assessment, although there has never been a legal requirement to produce such a document. Information about the number of such documents published by the Ministry of Defence is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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