Question follow-through · 91748
Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing turnover-based penalties for (a) systemic and (b) repeated equality breaches.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing turnover-based penalties for (a) systemic and (b) repeated equality breaches.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2025
Answer published
Where a claim under the Equality Act 2010 is upheld, courts and tribunals are able to award an appropriate remedy, including compensation. The Ministry of Justice has no plans to introduce turnover-based penalties for equality breaches.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Juries
17 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of its proposals to alter the use of jury trials on defendants.