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The Minister for Women and Equalities has responsibility for: promoting equality of opportunity for everyone, and reducing negative disparities strategic oversight of the government’s equality policy, for women, ethnicity, disability and LGBT+ overall sponsorship of the Social Mobility Commission and...
The Women and Equalities Unit is part of the Office for Equality and Opportunity. We lead work on policy relating to gender equality, LGBT+ people and the overall framework of equality legislation in the UK. WEU is part of the...
The minister’s responsibilities include: lead policy responsibility for gender equality and women’s rights sponsorship of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and Social Mobility Commission (SMC) UK equality framework (including the Equality Act) equality data and analysis The minister...
This role existed from 2010 to 2014. Following ministerial changes in April 2014, the responsibilities of this role were divided between the Minister for Women and the Minister for Equalities .
The Minister for Equalities has overall responsibility for: policy on sexual orientation and transgender equality cross-government equality strategy and legislation
The Government Equalities Office leads work on policy relating to women, sexual orientation and transgender equality. We are responsible for a range of equalities legislation.
Women are key to unlocking growth says Minister for Women and Equalities, as groundbreaking figures highlight women’s untapped potential.
MOJ responsibilities include: family justice and mediation (including Cafcass) female offenders mental health mental capacity (including Office of the Public Guardian) criminal offences gateway coroners, burials, cremation and inquiries policy equalities Women and Equalities responsibilities include: women and the economy,...
The Minister for Women and Equalities is responsible for the following policy areas: same sex marriage Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) equality legislation (including litigation and cases) working with other government departments on violence against women and girls
We lead on equality policy including women’s equality, race equality, LGBT+ equality, disability equality, socio-economic equality and the overall framework of equality legislation for the UK. OEO works with the Cabinet Office .
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