| Heading: |
Older Workers: Discrimination |
| Question ID: |
1805312 |
| UIN: |
HL7796 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3790 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Verma
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Baroness Verma
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the prevalence of age discrimination in recruitment and employment, and what steps they are taking to combat that discrimination. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
It is not possible to accurately estimate the prevalence of age discrimination in recruitment and employment because not all such discrimination is reported or challenged and in some cases such differential treatment can be objectively justified. The Equa... |
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| Answering body ID: |
53 |
| Answering body name: |
Cabinet Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |