Question follow-through · 19621
Carers: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make caring a protected characteristic in employment law.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make caring a protected characteristic in employment law.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
Carers are likely to be already protected from less favourable treatment under the Equality Act 2010, in relation to the protected characteristics of age and disability under the “discrimination by association” provisions. These provisions require employe...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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