Home Department written question – answered at on 17 July 2013.
Caroline Lucas
Green, Brighton, Pavilion
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the equality impact of her Department's spending reductions since 2010; whether this assessment has been used to inform her planning ahead of the 2013 comprehensive spending review and with what result; what plans she has to publish the equality impact assessments undertaken by her Department as a result of the upcoming comprehensive spending review; and if she will make a statement.
James Brokenshire
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Home Office completed an equality impact assessment at spending review 2010 prior to final decisions being taken on how savings would be delivered. Since the spending review 2010 the Home Office has continued to undertake equality impact assessments to inform ministerial policy decisions.
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