Petitions/Enact the Socio-Economic Duty of the Equality Act 2010.
StatusClosed
Opened29 Nov 2024
Closes29 May 2025
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Parliamentary debateNot eligible
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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.

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.

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Constituency engagement ranking

Siân Berry
1Siân Berry MP
Brighton Pavilion
10
Ellie Reeves
2Ellie Reeves MP
Lewisham West and East Dulwich
4
Damian Hinds
3Damian Hinds MP
East Hampshire
3
Steve Race
4Steve Race MP
Exeter
3
Janet Daby
5Janet Daby MP
Lewisham East
3
Matt Rodda
6Matt Rodda MP
Reading Central
3
John Grady
7John Grady MP
Glasgow East
3
Claire Hughes
8Claire Hughes MP
Bangor Aberconwy
3
Torsten Bell
9Torsten Bell MP
Swansea West
3
Mohammad Yasin
10Mohammad Yasin MP
Bedford
2
Enact the Socio-Economic Duty of the Equality Act 2010. — Petitions