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PETITIONClosedPetition · petition.parliament.uk

Enact the Socio-Economic Duty of the Equality Act 2010.

To enact the Socio-Economic Duty of the Equality Act 2010. This requires public bodies to consider inequalities resulting from socio-economic disadvantage when making certain decisions. Successive governments have not enacted the Duty.

Last fetched 03 May 2026 · petition.parliament.uk
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222
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 222/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 222/100,000
Background
We think income and wealth inequalities have devastating effects on the lives of the working class in the UK. We think the Equality Act 2010 was a significant step in tackling social and economic inequalities. Chief amongst its measures was the Socio-economic Duty, ‘designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage’. We think the unenacted first part of the Equality Act can help initiate a wider change in tackling entrenched class discrimination.