| Heading: |
Candidates: Women |
| Question ID: |
1810257 |
| UIN: |
58017 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-06 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4474 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kevin Hollinrake
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| Asking Member handle: |
kevinhollinrake
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@kevinhollinrake
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she plans to issue guidance to political parties on the potential impact of the Supreme Court judgement in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers on all-women shortlists; and whether she plans |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
| 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 |