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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Treasury looks at all impacts in the round, and the financial statement the Chancellor announced last week would have had an equalities impact assessment, which would have…30 Mar 2022HANSARDCareers in Science, Computing and EngineeringWe have seen good progress on increasing the number of girls studying science, technology, engineering and maths—STEM—subjects at school, but we know that too many women drop out…30 Mar 2022HANSARDInvestment for Businesses: Female and Minority EntrepreneursThe seed enterprise investment scheme is one of three tax-advantaged venture capital schemes that provide tax incentives to individuals who invest in companies at various stages…30 Mar 2022HANSARDEquality Act 2010: Implementation by Local AuthoritiesI agree with the hon. Gentleman’s sentiments. I do not think it right that women should be prevented from organising on the basis of their sex. Freedom of belief and speech are…30 Mar 2022HANSARDSandwell Metropolitan Borough CouncilOn 18 January 2022,1 announced to the House that the Secretary of State was minded to intervene at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (“the authority”) and to appoint…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesI do not know the details of Troy’s campaign but I can say that the model history curriculum has been drawn up in conjunction with the Department for Education. We think it is the…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesI thank the hon. Lady for her question. She is right that we are concerned about the trust deficit and people feeling that they do not belong or are not included in this country.…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesI can assure my hon. Friend that that is the case. The evidence and looking underneath it at the details of what is happening is important; otherwise, how can we tell when looking…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesI am very happy to reassure my hon. Friend. This is a new way of thinking about things. We are not looking at issues in isolation. We had many suggestions from people across the…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesI completely disagree with the hon. Lady. In fact, I know that black, Asian and other ethnic minority communities across the country will be very pleased with the plan because I…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesI completely agree with that. We cannot have young ethnic minority children growing up being told that everyone in that society is against them. It means that they give up, lose…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesThe right hon. Lady is very, very correct to raise the issue of strip-searching. The Home Secretary, I believe, wrote to her shadow and said that the incident is deeply…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesI am not quite sure why the hon. Lady thinks that we are trying to reduce the amount of race and ethnicity data. We are improving and increasing the amount of data. Perhaps she…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesYes, that is absolutely right. When constructing the actions in the report, our three pillars were building trust and fairness—fairness was right at the heart—creating agency and…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesIf it did, the hon. Lady would have been able to stand at the Dispatch Box and read out that section. In fact, the commission said that it did not find institutional racism in the…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesThe hon. Lady said that the report was set up because of what happened in the US; I really have to stress to the House that we are not the United States and we cannot assume that…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesWe have made an action on ethnicity pay gap reporting in the report, and we will be issuing guidance to help businesses and organisations to deliver it. What we are not going to…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesMy right hon. Friend is right to make the point about distinctions in language. Discrimination, disparity and disadvantage all mean different things. They can correlate and they…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesI thank the hon. Lady for her questions. I have a lot of time for her personally, but the fact is that Labour Members cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that this is an…17 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on our work to tackle ethnic disparities and to build a fairer, more inclusive Britain for all. In April…17 Mar 2022