United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 68262
Carers: Equality
Original
Introduced
15 July 2025
Last action
23 July 2025 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
23 July 2025
Summary
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57646 on Children in Care: Discrimination, if she will make caring a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
15 July 2025
Written question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57646 on Children in Care: Discrimination, if she will make caring a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.
Source: Commons
23 July 2025
Answer
There are currently no plans to make caring a legally protected characteristic. Carers are likely to be already protected from less favourable treatment under the Equality Act 2010, under the “discrimination by association” provisions, which require emplo...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Women and Equalities · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-15/68262
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1823622
- uk · wq-1823622 · source updated 23 July 2025