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Employment and Recruitment: Discrimination |
| Question ID: |
1808768 |
| UIN: |
56956 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5084 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mrs Elsie Blundell
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Mrs Elsie Blundell
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the new jobs and careers service will work with employers to help tackle ageism in (a) recruitment and (b) the workplace. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-11 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4083 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alison McGovern
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| Answering Member handle: |
Alison_McGovern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@Alison_McGovern
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| Answer text: |
The Government acknowledges the key role employers play in helping older individuals to remain in or re-enter the workforce, and the importance of embracing policies conductive to this support. The 2010 Equality Act provides strong protection against dire... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |