Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Families

(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, to which legislation her Department has applied the Family Test, published in August 2014.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 20th December 2017

The government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, in 2014 we introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Minsters. The Family Test was not designed to be a ‘tick-box’ exercise, and as such there is no requirement for departments to publish the results of assessments made under the Family Test.

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