Public Sector: Equality
(asked on 7th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of (1) LGBT people, (2) women, and (3) persons of colour, who have been refused service by service-providers contrary to section 29 of the Equality Act 2010, in each year since the introduction of that Act.
The information in the question is not available in the form requested.
The number of people who have contacted the Equality Advisory and Support Service – the free helpline service open to people across England, Scotland and Wales who believe that they may have been the victim of unlawful discrimination – seeking advice about a complaint of possible discrimination in the provision of services or public functions (Part 3 of the Equality Act 2010) are:
Sexual orientation | 64 |
Sex (which includes both men and women) | 228 |
Race (which includes nationality and national or ethnic origins as well as colour) | 675 |
These figures are for the period since October 2016 when the current service provider took over the contract for running the EASS. Figures for previous years are not available as the data was not recorded in this format.