Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 59
59
Rejected
We welcome the Government’s intention to focus more on socio-economic and geographic inequality and look...
Recommendation
We welcome the Government’s intention to focus more on socio-economic and geographic inequality and look forward to the publication of its Levelling Up White Paper. While enactment of the socio-economic duty, section 1 of the Equality Act, is unlikely to be a panacea, we recommend the Government commission a pilot to establish the costs and benefits of different approaches to voluntary adoption of the duty in England.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government rejected the recommendation for a pilot on the voluntary adoption of the socio-economic duty, stating it is not necessary at this time and that they first want to evaluate existing voluntary adoptions in devolved public bodies and some English local authorities.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Government Response
Rejected
HM Government · verbatim extract
Rejected
Reject. We do not believe that a pilot to establish the costs and benefits of different approaches to voluntary adoption of Section 1 of the Equality Act in England is necessary at this time. Before considering the usefulness of a pilot scheme, we would first want to look at any evaluation of how the duty is already working in devolved public bodies and a few English local authorities who have introduced it on a voluntary basis.
Read the full response on Parliament ↗