Equality Bill: Making it work

Ending age discrimination in services and public functions

On 29 June 2009, we issued the consultation document ‘Equality Bill: Making it work – Ending age discrimination in services and public functions’ inviting views on our developing policy for exceptions from the age discrimination ban and when the ban should be implemented.

The consultation ended on 30 September 2009.

Please click below to view the documents:

• Age consultation document
• Impact Assessment
• Equality Impact Assessment

To provide further information on how age is used in motor and travel insurance and personal loans, GEO commissioned external consultants Oxera Consulting Ltd to assess the role that age plays in these financial services.

Please see the research report below:

• The use of age-based practices in financial services (Executive summary)
• The use of age-based practices in financial services (Full report)

On 27 January we issued ‘Equality Bill: Making it work – Ending age discrimination in services and public functions. A Policy Statement’. This document summarises the consultation responses and sets out our plans for specific exceptions from the ban. For health and social care only, the document also initiates further debate on what uses of age should be able to continue, by whom and the legal way forward. Comments and views can be emailed to age@geo.gsi.gov.uk by 30 April 2010.

• Equality Bill: Making it work – Ending age discrimination in services and public functions. A Policy Statement

The individual consultation responses can be viewed at the following link:

• Consultation responses