Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of the extent of enforcement of the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 on discrimination on the basis of disability.

I refer the Hon Member to the evidence given by the Government Equalities Office and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the recent inquiry into Enforcing the Equality Act: the law and the role of the EHRC by the Women and Equalities Select Committee chaired by my Rt Hon Friend the Member for Basingstoke. The Select Committee recently published its report from the inquiry and the Government will be responding to that report shortly.

Written evidence to the inquiry by the Government can be found here http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/women-and-equalities-committee/enforcing-the-equality-act-the-law-and-the-role-of-the-equality-and-human-rights-commission/written/91826.html