Question follow-through · 30488
Companies: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring companies to record age-related data in their recruitment practices as means of ensuring compliance with the 2010 Equalities Act.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring companies to record age-related data in their recruitment practices as means of ensuring compliance with the 2010 Equalities Act.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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18 Feb 2025
Answer published
Recruitment practices are a matter for individual employers, provided that they comply with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010, including the age discrimination provisions. We would encourage larger employers to monitor their recruitment patterns i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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