Women and Equalities written question – answered at on 20 March 2024.
Bob Blackman
Conservative, Harrow East
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to exclude caste as a protected characteristic from the Equality Act 2010.
Stuart Andrew
Assistant Whip, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Equalities)
The government’s position remains as stated by the then Minister for Women and Equalities, the member for Portsmouth North, in her statement to Parliament on 23 July 2018.
We do not intend to make an order determining caste to be an aspect of ‘race’ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010.
We will repeal the statutory duty to make such an order once a suitable legislative vehicle becomes available.
Yes2 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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