Question follow-through · 901930

Disability: Discrimination

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to help end discrimination against disabled people.

answeredWomen and Equalities

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Answering body
Women and Equalities
Tabled
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
18 Dec 2024
Answer
18 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to help end discrimination against disabled people.

  2. 18 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    We are tackling pay discrimination through our plan to make work pay – implementing disability pay gap reporting for large employers, and enshrining in law the right to equal pay for disabled people.On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I ann...

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