Question follow-through · 15568
Assistance Animals: Business Premises
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that businesses comply with the Equality Act 2010 by allowing people with sight loss to enter their premises with an assistance dog.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that businesses comply with the Equality Act 2010 by allowing people with sight loss to enter their premises with an assistance dog.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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29 Nov 2024
Answer published
Under the Equality Act 2010, businesses and public bodies that provide goods and services to the public must not unlawfully discriminate against disabled people, including those with assistance dogs.The Act places a duty on service providers to make reaso...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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