Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 25
25
Rejected
Publish updated equality impact assessment and mitigation plan for Nationality and Borders Act provisions.
Recommendation
The Home Office must publish an updated equality impact assessment of the Nationality and Borders Act’s asylum provisions within three months. Alongside this assessment it should publish a mitigation plan to prevent discriminatory effects of the Act’s asylum provisions on people with vulnerabilities arising from protected characteristics, including women with disclosed histories of sexual and gender-based violence and other forms of abuse, people with physical and mental disabilities, children and families, and LGBT people. It should seek the advice of the Equality and Human Rights Commission to ensure the equality impact assessment and mitigation plan follow best practice and fully comply with the Equality Act’s Public Sector Equality Duty. (Paragraph 154) Detention
Government Response Summary
The government believes any differential impact is because of an individual’s conduct and is proportionate to control illegal migration and reduce crime.
Government Response
Rejected
HM Government
Rejected
We published the Equality Impact Assessment for the Illegal Migration Act on 10 May 2023. The Assessment is clear any differential impact is because of an individual’s conduct and is proportionate in order to achieve the legitimate aim of controlling illegal migration and reducing crime.