Question follow-through · 33004
Age: Discrimination
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to tackle ageism.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to tackle ageism.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2025
Answer published
Age discrimination that cannot be objectively justified is unacceptable and unlawful across a range of fields under the Equality Act 2010 and similar legislation (on employment) in Northern Ireland. The strong protections in the 2010 Act enable older peop...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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