Question follow-through · 37835
Age: Discrimination
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the Equality Act 2010 in tackling age discrimination in job applications.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the Equality Act 2010 in tackling age discrimination in job applications.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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18 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Equality Act 2010 has strong protections that enable people to challenge age discrimination across a range of fields, including recruitment processes. Where age discrimination cannot be objectively justified and is unlawful, individuals can seek redre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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