Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many equalities impact assessments his Department completed in each of the last five years for which data is available.

The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Under the Public Sector Equality Duty all public authorities, including Government departments, are required by law to ensure that they have due regard to certain equality considerations when carrying out their functions.

While equality impact assessments may be produced, there is no legal requirement for duty assessments to be recorded in a specific format.