Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Kelvin Hopkins Excerpts
Thursday 2nd February 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening
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It remains, as my hon. Friend suggests, a work in progress, but it will be published very shortly.

Kelvin Hopkins Portrait Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North) (Lab)
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According to a report by the Trades Union Congress, between January and March 2014, following the introduction of tribunal fees, just 1,222 sexual discrimination claims were made to an employment tribunal, compared with 6,017 in the same quarter a year earlier. Does that not make a nonsense of the Government’s supposed concern for gender equality?