The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill received Royal Assent on 25 April after peers voted against removal of the EHRC’s general duty and in favour of caste protection.
On 23 April 2013, the Ministry of Justice published ‘Reform of Judicial Review: the Government response’ including details of the reforms it will be taking forward.
The European Commission website provides information about the gender pay gap, explaining why it exists and what the Commission is doing to close the gap.
In April 2013, IPPR published ‘One step forward, two steps back: Evaluating the institutions of British immigration policymaking’.
In April 2013, the think tank British Future published ‘The Integration Consensus 1993-2013: How Britain changed since Stephen Lawrence’.
In March 2013, the London School of Economics’ Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, published a paper entitled ‘A question of quality: Do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England?’.
In April 2013, the Equality and Diversity Forum wrote to Parliamentarians about tabled amendments to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.
‘A Fair Society? – how the cuts target disabled people’ from The Centre for Welfare Reform, on behalf of the Campaign for a Fair Society was published in 2013.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has published a report on the potential impacts on the UK of future migration from Bulgaria and Romania so the UK Government can assess the potential impacts of migration from EU2 countries following the lifting of transitional controls at the end of 2013.
An Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) report, published March 2013, explores changes in women’s aspirations and expectations over time and from generation to generation, and is intended to spark debate about the priorities for the next era of gender politics.
