| Heading: |
Candidates: Women |
| Question ID: |
1807045 |
| UIN: |
55456 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4634 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Christine Jardine
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| Asking Member handle: |
CajardineMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@CajardineMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) [2025] UKSC 16 on political parties’ use of all-wo |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1541 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Nia Griffith
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| Answering Member handle: |
NiaGriffithMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@NiaGriffithMP
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| Answer text: |
The Supreme Court Judgment was clear that for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, biological sex determines whether a person is a woman or not. Accordingly, in relation to the Equality Act 2010’s provisions allowing political parties to use all-women s... |
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| Answering body ID: |
31 |
| Answering body name: |
Women and Equalities |
| Tweeted: |
true |