Question follow-through · 52508
Employment: ME/CFS
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to protect people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis from discrimination by employers in Surrey.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 23 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to protect people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis from discrimination by employers in Surrey.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 May 2025
Answer published
The Equality Act 2010 defines disability as ‘a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities’. The Act defines ‘long-term’ as having lasted, or likely to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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