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Maternity Action

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 145958, tabled on 23 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason Maternity Action has been removed from his Department's Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination Advisory Board.

Answered on

8 April 2022

The Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination Advisory Board’s purpose is to consider non-legislative improvements to reduce pregnancy and maternity discrimination in the workplace.  It is a collaboration between Government, employer and family representative groups and the membership needs the right balance between those different groups in order for the Board to do its job.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy